This post, written in 2017, continues to receive a lot of attention. I have taken the topic up in more detail in a series of posts started in 2019. While I still stand behind what I have written here, this first post was based more on literature research, some personal experience and reflection. The 2019 […]
The title image shows people waiting to be picked up by a bus at the side of the highway in Istanbul. The are standing beneath a sign saying that it is forbidden to stop vehicles on highways to let passengers get on or off… Coping with Ambiguity and Uncertainty This is part 3 of a […]
When can we consider compliance training as “effective” and what KPIs make sense to measure its effectiveness? Often we see Compliance teams’ presentations reporting on how many hours of training they have given in a certain period of time. But does this tell us anything about the effectiveness of compliance training? Other than giving an […]
Today someone else called me a “thought leader” for the first time. Boy, did I feel flattered and proud for a moment. It was in a comment on my LinkedIn post about my activity as a lecturer at the TEiD Akademi on Ethical Culture and Leadership and on Measuring and Reporting on the Effectiveness of […]
An amazing trip lies behind me and my head is still spinning a little from the many different impressions of my “Tour de Turquie – 5 cities in 5 days” which I did in the last week of July. Having recently kicked-off our Ethics & Compliance „Samurai“ group of Field Force Champions, my purpose was […]
While thinking about driving back from a week of vacation out of Istanbul to our house in the city, I am starting to look at the traffic and the inevitable congestion that will build up in the next hours as a few million people will return from their 9-day Ramadan holiday to their homes. After […]
I was drawing up some slides on the results of my annual Ethical Climate Survey yesterday when I came to the unavoidable “Tone from the Top”. At that point it struck me how this choice of expressions transports the notion of a classical pyramid-shaped hierarchy. I asked myself how this is supposed to fit with […]
Effective Ethics & Compliance in the Context of Turkish Culture Introduction In 2017 I first wrote a blog post about Culture, Compliance and Turkey with a first discussion of the 6 dimensions of Turkish culture according to Geert Hofstede and their meaning for compliance management in this country. In the beginning of 2019, the Turkish […]
In his May 2nd “Compliance Perspectives” podcast, the SCCE’s Adam Turteltaub had an interesting chat with Steve Priest of Integrity Insight International. Amongst other topics, they discussed that a main failure of Compliance trainings has been treating employees “like children”, teaching them rules over rules, to best remember them by heart and telling them not […]
Repeatedly, Barr said it didn’t matter that Trump had deceived the public. “I’m not in the business of determining when lies are told to the American people,” he said. But now Barr, by misrepresenting his dealings with Mueller, has gotten himself into the business of lying to the American people. – D. Milibank in the […]
This post is not about mathematics or physics but about the behavior of people in the presence of rules and limits … in Turkey. When we discussed revising our Company’s expense limits to account for the currency devaluation, soaring inflation and resulting price increases in the hospitality sector in Turkey in the last months, I […]
To continue my 2018 reading list, I am adding here the books (including e-books and audiobooks), online courses, articles etc. I am reading throughout this year. I do a lot of reading (and listening while driving in Istanbul traffic) for my personal interest as well as my engagement as leader of the Working Group for […]
In a recent post on my LinkedIn timeline I read: “After 5 minutes from our birth, our families decide our names, nationalities and religions. And then, most of us will spend the rest of their life fighting blindly for things they have never chosen. Unfortunately this is the reality. If we do not go through […]
When I was recently making my way through Istanbul to meet my wife for dinner, I was using Google Maps to take me on the fastest route through the evening rush hour. My wife was waiting at a gallery opening in Nişantaşı in the European part of the city and I was coming from Sancaktepe […]
2018 was a year of learning for me. As the year draws to a close, here’s a more or less complete list of the books, audiobooks, blogs, MOOCs I have read, listened to or studied throughout this year. They have inspired and helped me to develop a much wider frame of perspective and deeper understanding […]
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