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Your business could be the model for compliance. Leadership has bought on and is accountable, risks have been identified and managed, and you have successfully folded corporate compliance into the fabric of your company.  As efficient as your business is, do you ever work with consultants, law firms, accountants, brokers, marketing companies, or other service […]

Technological growth, as Ray Kurzweil, a futurist, inventor, and author, puts it, “…is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps literally, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.” The core concept is that technology has advanced exponentially. These advances fuel economic growth, […]

Understanding ethics is an active learning process. Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor, faced wars, plagues, and starvation. Yet, he still devoted time in the final years of his life to writing notes to himself about how to live virtuously. From anyone who hasn’t read his writing, the ability to do the right thing was a […]

There is a theory of business ethics that suggests there are three main leadership behaviors: Moral, Amoral and Immoral. Business leaders have their own approach to following the law, industry regulations, and their own ethics and morals. Have you ever dealt with those kinds of leadership? The Immoral Leader The Immoral Leader has an active […]

Do the Right Thing Companies, no matter their size, need to have a strong culture of compliance. Accomplishing that means establishing, from the top of the business down, an environment that fosters ethical behavior, obeys the rules of law and uses common sense while making decisions. The culture of compliance must be part of a […]

A lot of people have been asking some very important questions in the wake of June’s sorrowful collapse of a condo. How could something like this happen? Who knew about it? How can we stop it from happening again? Millions of  Americans live in communities, which are run by more than 100,000 different associations.  Behind […]

The form of workplace harassment that tends to get written about most often is sexual harassment. Sexual harassment in any form is unacceptable and all too common. People more rarely discuss other forms of workplace harassment, which are just as common and can be just as damaging. Here are some of the many forms of […]

There is no doubt that cryptocurrency is booming. On January 7th, the value of the cryptocurrency market swelled to over one trillion US dollars. On February 19th, the value of Bitcoin, the most popular form of cryptocurrency, exceeded one trillion dollars all on its own. Bitcoin was actually created in 2009, but in 2021, there […]

Every business, from the largest international corporation to the smallest law firm, would benefit from implementing a compliance program. Compliance programs help educate employees on national and international laws and regulations, ethical business behavior, requirements applying to them, and what they can do to efficiently comply with them. They are especially important at start-up companies, […]

One of the best sources of revenue for small businesses – although they may not realize it – is the United States government itself. The United States government is the largest consumer in the world, and it purchases a portion of the goods and services that it needs to function from small businesses. With the […]