Compliance Perspectives

By Adam Turteltaub

Garrett Reisman has spent 107 days in space.  He is the former Director of Space Flight Operations at SpaceX and is currently a Special Advisor there.  He is also a professor of engineering at USC.

What does that have to do with compliance?  Surprisingly a great deal.  In this podcast, Garrett shows how three of NASA’s catastrophe’s – Apollo 1, the Challenger and Columbia – had several factors in common, and how similar they are to risks every compliance team may someday face.

Those risks include:

* The normalization of deviance: something that shouldn’t happen did over and over again, without negative consequences over a long period of time.  After getting away with it for a long time, it becomes normal, until something very bad happens.

* Schedule pressure: while well-intentioned, it can lead to decisions that have disastrous consequences.

* Discouraging dissent: by stifling criticism and telegraphing what management wanted to hear, warnings are unheeded and whistleblowers are hesitant to come forward

Listen in for some fascinating insights into spaceflight, its risk, and what compliance teams can learn from them.

By Adam Turteltaub

Everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) these days, but in some ways, it’s a lot like blockchain and Bitcoin. It’s often talked about more than it is understood.

Amber Mac is one of the people who understand what AI is.  Fortunately, she was willing to share her expertise with us via a podcast and will also be speaking on the topic at the 2018 Compliance and Ethics Institute.

Take the time to listen to the podcast and you’ll learn:

* What exactly AI is

* How businesses are already using AI

* The ethical implications and compliance risks of AI

* The importance of setting goals for its use

* The future of AI for business, and the compliance challenges that go along with it

It’s a fascinating listen and a good way to improve your own intelligence when it comes to artificial intelligence.

By Adam Turteltaub

Everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) these days, but in some ways, it’s a lot like blockchain and Bitcoin. It’s often talked about more than it is understood.

Amber Mac is one of the people who understand what AI is.  Fortunately, she was willing to share her expertise with us via a podcast and will also be speaking on the topic at the 2018 Compliance and Ethics Institute.

Take the time to listen to the podcast and you’ll learn:

* What exactly AI is

* How businesses are already using AI

* The ethical implications and compliance risks of AI

* The importance of setting goals for its use

* The future of AI for business, and the compliance challenges that go along with it

It’s a fascinating listen and a good way to improve your own intelligence when it comes to artificial intelligence.

By Adam Turteltaub

A compliance job is rarely easy.  And, sometimes, as was discussed in a recent podcast, you may find yourself having to leave a job.  But the chances of having a good, successful career in compliance are much better, if you spend some time planning it out.

Kristy Grant-Hart of Spark Compliance Consulting has enjoyed a successful compliance career and in this podcast shares her advice on how best to enjoy one yourself.

A successful compliance career, she explains, comes from the determining what you want to do, whether it’s to stay where you are, rise and grow or change industries.  Once you have a goal in mind, it’s time to get busy.  Even spending 10 minutes a month learning about an industry you want to potentially join, she argues, can be enormously helpful.

Listen in as she explains the value of planning, the importance of raising your profile, what to look for when interviewing and how to negotiate a job offer.

By Adam Turteltaub

A compliance job is rarely easy.  And, sometimes, as was discussed in a recent podcast, you may find yourself having to leave a job.  But the chances of having a good, successful career in compliance are much better, if you spend some time planning it out.

Kristy Grant-Hart of Spark Compliance Consulting has enjoyed a successful compliance career and in this podcast shares her advice on how best to enjoy one yourself.

A successful compliance career, she explains, comes from the determining what you want to do, whether it’s to stay where you are, rise and grow or change industries.  Once you have a goal in mind, it’s time to get busy.  Even spending 10 minutes a month learning about an industry you want to potentially join, she argues, can be enormously helpful.

Listen in as she explains the value of planning, the importance of raising your profile, what to look for when interviewing and how to negotiate a job offer.

By Adam Turteltaub

Yoga and compliance have seemed to go together a lot lately.  The yoga classes at the Institutes are very full, and Scott Eblin, who keynoted at the Compliance Institute and will be speaking at the upcoming Compliance and Ethics Institute, both spoke about it and gave a startling demonstration as a part of his talk.

Katerina Tapas, who is Ethics, Senior Consultant at Allstate, is convinced that compliance and ethics professionals could learn a lot from yoga, and not just how to be flexible.  In this podcast she argues that yoga offers lessons in how to be more mindful, deliberate in our thinking, more attuned to others, and more attentive.

Listen in for this unusual Compliance Perspectives podcast and judge for yourself.

By Adam Turteltaub

Yoga and compliance have seemed to go together a lot lately.  The yoga classes at the Institutes are very full, and Scott Eblin, who keynoted at the Compliance Institute and will be speaking at the upcoming Compliance and Ethics Institute, both spoke about it and gave a startling demonstration as a part of his talk.

Katerina Tapas, who is Ethics, Senior Consultant at Allstate, is convinced that compliance and ethics professionals could learn a lot from yoga, and not just how to be flexible.  In this podcast she argues that yoga offers lessons in how to be more mindful, deliberate in our thinking, more attuned to others, and more attentive.

Listen in for this unusual Compliance Perspectives podcast and judge for yourself.

By Adam Turteltaub

Imagine sealing yourself in a bubble in which the only ideas inside are your own, and nothing you disagree with can enter it.  In the abstract it sounds kind of great.  In practice and in business, it can be very dangerous.

Gael O’Brien has given the risks of self-seal a lot of thought.  She is President of Strategic Opportunities Group, a long-time executive coach and leadership expert.  Her career includes writing The Ethics Coach Column for Entrepreneur Magazine and time at PWC and Mitsubishi Motors, and we even overlapped for a few months at one job, more than decade ago.

In this podcast she warns of the risks of self-seal, how executives can fall into the trap, how to avoid it, and how to extricate yourself from it.  It’s a good listen and a good reminder of the value of hearing many voices, not just our own.

By Adam Turteltaub

Imagine sealing yourself in a bubble in which the only ideas inside are your own, and nothing you disagree with can enter it.  In the abstract it sounds kind of great.  In practice and in business, it can be very dangerous.

Gael O’Brien has given the risks of self-seal a lot of thought.  She is President of Strategic Opportunities Group, a long-time executive coach and leadership expert.  Her career includes writing The Ethics Coach Column for Entrepreneur Magazine and time at PWC and Mitsubishi Motors, and we even overlapped for a few months at one job, more than decade ago.

In this podcast she warns of the risks of self-seal, how executives can fall into the trap, how to avoid it, and how to extricate yourself from it.  It’s a good listen and a good reminder of the value of hearing many voices, not just our own.

By Adam Turteltaub

Richard Bistrong from Front-Line Anti-Bribery does a great deal of face to face training on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and anti-bribery in general.

While we were both participating in an anti-corruption conference in Beijing, Richard sat down and shared his insights from time talking with and listening to compliance professionals, the workforce and management.

In this podcast he observes that knowledge about the FCPA’s requirements is generally not the problem:  workers understand it’s illegal to pay bribes.  The challenge that they are facing is how to work successfully in high risk geographies where their competitors may not be playing by the rules.

Many on the commercial side, he has found, believe that compliance doesn’t understand the challenges that they are up against.  To succeed, he believes, compliance needs to admit to the challenge and invite business people to share with the compliance team the risks that they face and then work together to devise an effective response.

Listen in to learn more about what he has found is on the commercial team’s mind, and also the challenge when it comes to working with management.