archiveChief Compliance Officer Insider

I often hear clients ask ‘how do we motivate our employees’.  I think we are looking at employee motivation from the wrong end of the telescope. Why are we looking for the magic bean of motivation instead of wondering why our employees lost motivation in the first place? Surely that’s...

In recent weeks, whenever I talk to fellow business leaders, the conversations inevitably focus on two topics—return to work and retention and recruitment fears. Much of the talk about return to work has been very functional, focusing on how often we should expect people to be in the office, how...

Government spending on defense contracts topped $445 billion in 2020. These contractors inhabit a realm where classified and top-secret information is their focus. It stands to reason, then, that security should be at the highest level. Although budgets are often allocated to defend the perimeter, there’s another potential exposure point that’s...

The global COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated remote working, with figures from a Gallup survey from 2020 showed that 62 percent of employed US adults were working part or full time from their homes. While data in the UK compiled from a survey by the Office for National Statistics showed that on...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterized by interconnectivity via digital tools. The COVID-19 pandemic nudged that digital transformation forward a few steps, but entrepreneurs transitioning out of the pandemic will need to find ways to use technology to improve their bottom lines. Here are a few great examples of how...

It’s happening in this world of working from home, living with lockdowns and isolations – overwhelm. That feeling when everything is too much. Too much work, too much emotion, too much information. Argh! As a leader, you’ve got to take care of your own wellbeing, workload and overwhelm, but there’s...

Do you remember the last time you were at a party or a social gathering and someone asked what you do for a living? (With Covid, this seems like a lifetime ago, but think back.) Do you remember describing your job and watching as they lost interest? What if you...

It's been more than 20 years since Novartis Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School, Amy Edmondson, first identified the concept of psychological safety and its importance to work teams. Professor Edmondson defines it as "a belief that no one will be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas,...

Workplaces across the US have been empty since last year as millions of employees worked remotely. Now that physical locations are starting to reopen, some CEOs and managers are having to completely redefine their workplaces. In fact, what many business leaders are discovering is that navigating a whole new dynamic...

The union ministry of health and family Welfare, Govt of India, data suggests a drop of 76,190 cases in the last 24 hours between the 6th and 7th of June 2021, recording a total of 14, 01,609 cases. States such as Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal projected...