To say no to new business sounds slightly crazy. Especially when it promises to be highly profitable. Growth, new prospects, risky but lucrative choices, all tend to be fatally attractive. Small or new companies find it almost impossible to turn down new business, such as a prospective client. Or to […]
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Profits, performance and ethics: ready for the coming convergence?
“Top executives need to be paid a lot to be willing to do their demanding role. Company performance depends almost entirely on the top leadership’s capability. Ethics doesn’t pay, what matters is short term rewards for stakeholders.” These three widely used assertions about business sound increasingly threadbare, unsupported by credible […]
Integrity—we all have it don’t we, or do we?
Time to go easy on the banks, argues the head of the CBI. Let’s take bankers “off the naughty step.” How persuasive is this plea in behalf of a much tainted profession? No too convincing say some: “A little longer on the naughty step will benefit the banks” went […]
Can we measure trustworthy business behavior?
Guest post from Barbara Brooks Kimmel, CEO & Cofounder Trust across America-Trust around the World Where does trust come from, what does it really mean, and why is it so important in business? As a former CEO once told me, most leaders are too busy dousing day-to-day fires to give […]
Keeping the sustainability plate spinning
All company directors and leaders juggle many plates, all spinning simultaneously. One of the most challenging plates is labelled “Sustainability” and is about ways of affecting all company activities. It is also about achieving corporate ethical respectability. But what does sustainability mean in practice? How do leaders and managers know […]
Taking the temperature of your compliance program
Wearable gadgets that track your heart rate, temperature or some other measure of health such as blood pressure are currently proving popular. If only we could have one that gives a quick reading on the health of company compliance programs. Too often the main health check of programs is an […]
Compliance needs that vital boardroom presence (Part 1)
[spacer height=”20px”]You pause outside the room. This is the moment you’ve dreaded and perhaps looked forward to. Taking a deep breath you tap on the boardroom door. Or perhaps it’s a regular encounter when you report on important compliance issues. You don’t so much dread this experience as wonder how […]
Two secrets of smart investing pay dividends
There are scores of get rich quick secrets of investing out there. You can find the “29 Masters’ Secrets I Used to Increase My Net Worth Ten-fold”, another tempts you with the the “100 Secret Strategies for Successful Investing,” while yet another promises the “7 secrets of money: An insider’s […]