A Greeting Card for Businesses in the Time of Coronavirus
We have a timely present for your business or organization. I was chatting last week with several of my good friends in the compliance sector: Nicole Rose of CreateTraining, the Australia-based education and training company that has produced several powerful animations for LeadGood clients; Richard Bistrong of CEO Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC, the well-known anti-bribery consultant and […]
#SB50Ethics If You’re Thinking Ethics During Super Bowl
Had a fun little idea I want to spread. If you are watching the “Big Game” Sunday Feb. 7 (or the “Big Pre-Game” or the “Big Post-Game”), and a pithy thought pops into your head about ethics, or compliance, or business leadership and culture, please join me in using the hashtag #SB50Ethics. And if you […]
Tone at the Very Top, DOJ-Style
As compliance professionals and leadership counselors, we focus on “tone at the top.” What the C-Suite says is critical to establishing an ethical culture in an organization. What is even more important to foster that culture is whether top executives speak and act consistently. We advise our leaders that even one act of apparent hypocrisy, or of “looking […]
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 […]
The Oscars, and The Sting Rule of Ethical Leadership
Will the billion-plus viewers of the Oscars this year hear messages that promote a culture of ethics, or erode it? My compliance chum Amy Hutchens and I, and others we hope, are planning to have some fun with that question as we “Live Blog” during the Oscars telecast tomorrow (Sunday, February 22). You can follow […]
“How To Destroy Morale in 4 Easy Steps”
Thanks to @EthiFocus for bringing my attention to this bit of research in a Washington Post blog: How to destroy employee morale in 4 easy steps. These are also four do-nots if you care about Tone at the Top.
Cory Booker’s Tweet
Newark, NJ, mayor Cory Booker offered this quote in a tweet today: “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams
Conan’s Own Moral
Item #1: Conan O’Brien’s final quote: “If you work really hard and you’re kind, I’m telling you, amazing things will happen.” Item #2, even better: Since Friday night, when O’Brien said it, thousands of people have re-tweeted that quote. At a random time two days later, still another 10 re-tweets per minute. Think the average […]
Tips for leading from within
I wrote up some nitty-gritty tactics for how to “Lead Good” for the website of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) — the leading trade association for in-house lawyers. My article, “Top Ten Practical Ways to Enrich and Empower Your Compliance Program,” is the ACC’s featured “Top Ten” article of the month. The sub-text for […]
Everything I needed to know I learned at Summer Camp (Part 2)
This message from my 18-year-old son, a camp counselor this summer. At orientation, the Camp Director talked about how the camp runs on “discipline of respect” that is “clear, calm, fair, and consistent.” Isn’t this exactly the goal of good corporate governance? This proves that (1) you don’t need a pricey seminar to learn the […]