The idea that compliance will take a dive in importance due to a changed US administration is laughable, if it were not affecting some normally quite sane people. It is true Donald Trump seems no fan of compliance and has gone on the record as saying the Foreign Corrupt Practices […]
The US election has been one way answering what sort of leader some people want. Another is the spell-binding Abel Gance silent movie Napoleon. Once again this extraordinary achievement packed out a major London venue in November 2016. It keeps happening. Whenever this marvel of cinema rears its head, audiences […]
Most companies claim to have important values. In the best ones these drive the organisation, guiding both direction and culture. Yet as Enron demonstrated, boasting about values is easy. Making them come alive, and sustaining them is far harder. One leading global communication company for example, call its values “Guiding […]
Also click here to see Part 1 “I don’t think there’s been a day in the office recently when we have not thought about values in some capacity, or engaged with them—even if we sometimes get it wrong. They’re mentioned in the team when we’re talking about pitching, recruiting, making […]
Financial managers got it wrong. As a group they confidently expected a “yes” vote in Greece. Hardly a triumph of peering round the corners of the future. They joined the shamed pollsters of the UK’s recent general election, in which all the main poll services failed miserably to predict the result, […]
If you’re going to hurl humans thousands and eventually millions of miles into space, they’d better be mentally strong and capable of handling intense stress and pressure. A little known, fascinating study about NASA describes how it chose astronauts during the 1980s. It potentially also has some implications for ethical […]
I only did what everyone else was doing.” Or “my boss told me to do it.” These are the sort of dodgy answers people give when they want to avoid taking any blame for their actions. To take an extreme case, the world refused to accept this excuse for killing […]