I have been advocating for a long time now for changing the name of the game: leaving behind the misnomer “compliance management” and putting the focus on culture, ethics and risk or simply put: good decision making. To use an analogy from the world of sports, more specifically football (I mean the European version where […]
…Also, the “hour” will probably last more than 60 minutes… As the number of reported infections and deaths from the pandemic grow also in Turkey, people are facing a situation that disrupts their usual lifestyle and coping mechanisms much more deeply and thoroughly than any other crisis they have experienced before. As the Turkish Health […]
I found this post in my drafts. I had written it on March 16, 2020, but for some reason not posted it. It was the beginning of the lockdown in Turkey to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus in this country. My thoughts from then are resonating with the situation we are facing now; […]
Orientation This post is the second in a series of posts on effective Ethics & Compliance in the context of Turkish culture. In the first part, I looked at the motivation for this analysis, and the cultural profile of Turkey in the Hofstede 6D model. In this second part, I will summarize the current requirements […]
Today, as the sun is setting for the last time in this decade on the other side of the Bosphorus, I am reflecting on 2019 and what it meant to me and who / what I am grateful for. The sun sets in Istanbul on New Year’s Eve 2019 for the final time in this […]
September 13, 2017 As a foreigner working and living with his family here in Turkey, it is natural for me to learn to speak Turkish. I have met a couple of expats who have been living here for years and do not even try to learn the language instead trying to get by with English. […]
September 17, 2017 When we were still living in Germany, a colleague of Burcu’s once made her this “compliment”: “I am really positively surprised by you. I always thought all Turks were lazy and slow.” The colleague was apparently not at all aware at that time how discriminatory her comment actually was. We Germans tend […]
September 12, 2017 Ne mutlu yarım Türküm diyene. The first idea for this blog came actually up one year ago. To be more exact, it was Burcu who suggested that I write a blog. I don’t recall exactly when, but we had just moved from Lindau at Lake Constance to Isanbul, and in one conversation […]
Not all outcomes are created equal As human beings our thinking is subject to a host of biases. When it comes to the ethical dimension in decision-making, an important one is the Outcome Bias. It means that we judge the quality of a decision by its eventual outcome. It’s the outcome we arrive at that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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