Archive for March, 2012

March 1st, 2012

Can Fraud and Corruption be Stopped?

We must now consider if fraud can ever be eliminated: and under this head there are three points of inquiry. (1) Whether fraud can ever be clearly defined. (2) Whether [...]

March 1st, 2012

Overcome The “Not Invented Here” Syndrome

By Gail Kasper, Author and Mentor of the Top 1% Club (http://www.gailkasper.com) Are you familiar with NIH, the “not invented here” syndrome? Perhaps it’s rampant at your place of work. [...]

March 1st, 2012

Hostile Environments, how dangerous can they be?

In corners of the world, society unravels at unpredictable times in some predictable ways.  As the first portion the times are unpredictable times – I shall avoid the chutzpah of [...]

March 1st, 2012

The Perceived Value of a Franchise

Operating in the world of franchised business as I do you learn that many principals that are true in business are magnified by the relationships in franchising.  It is fairly [...]

March 1st, 2012

Technology v. Thinking, aka Photo Radar v. Savvy driver.

Technology seems very important to both organizations and their leaders. Piles amassed in to mountains amassed into continents of data for the purpose of  ?.  It is all about technology [...]

March 1st, 2012

Sanctions and Compliance, A Cautionary Tale…

On February 24, 2012, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) announced the following Civil Money Penalty Information: “Online Micro, LLC Settles Iran Export Apparent Violations: Online Micro, [...]

March 1st, 2012

FATF 2012 AML Recommendations

On 16 February 2012, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global standard setting body for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) , published the following public [...]