Two Things Watching The Oscars Taught Me About Ethics and Compliance
Last Sunday, three of us compliance lawyer types had ourselves a virtual Oscar Party. We three – Amy Hutchens (CCEP), President of CLEAResources; Kirsten Hotchkiss, now an employment and employee relations counsel with American Express Global Business Travel, and I (President of LeadGood, and also CCEP)– conducted an experiment with the following hypothesis: IF the […]
Compliance, groundskeepers, and chalk lines
This Friday night, my son’s “Babe Ruth Prep” baseball team had its first game of the Fall Ball season. So I found myself, under a clear sky, raking the infield dirt and laying down chalk for the foul lines and the batter’s box. And I had a thought: “Even here, even now, I’m leading compliance!” […]
Way to go, Donna!
Kudos to my colleague and social media friend Donna Boehme, who will be one of four honorees at the 10th Annual International Compliance and Ethics Awards Dinner, at the Compliance and Ethics Institute of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), on Monday in Chicago. Please join me in congratulating Donna, who is being most-deservedly honored […]
On the Eve of 9-11
Every year, as we pass Labor Day and approach September 11th, I think of the not-so-modest proposal I offered a few years ago, for a new national way to think about those two American events. This year, the deliberately public, deliberately heinous beheadings of two journalists again bring my thoughts to “Freedom’s Labors.” Steven Sotloff and James […]
The Days of Freedom’s Labors
As we approach early September, I’d like to make a proposal. First, I propose that the Friday after Labor Day be designated a full federal postal and banking holiday, to be designated as Freedom Day. I know that the idea for this kind of holiday, designed to commemorate the shock, losses, and resolve of 9/11, […]
Corporate campaigning may get new rules
Let’s say that as a business leader, you want your company to “Lead Good” in more than its own operations. You want your company to “Lead Good” across the country — by spending corporate coin on ads to promote (or oppose) candidates in a federal election. Right now, as the law stands, you can’t do […]
Is Employment a Corporate Social Responsibility?
I heard some interesting reactions to and interpretations of the comments on April 29 by Dr Margaret Chan, the Director-General of the World Health Organization. She said: “I have reached out to companies manufacturing antiviral drugs to assess capacity and all options for ramping up production. “I have also reached out to influenza vaccine manufacturers […]