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In 2001, TAP Pharmaceuticals was hit with what was then the largest settlement in the history of the pharmaceutical industry, and the age of commercial compliance was born. That $875 million fine – for violating marketing laws, fraud charges, and filing false claims with Medicaid – ushered in a new...

The Link Between Management Accounting and Financial Accounting. Top-management is responsible for everything; for the annual accounts to be published too. Tell it like it is. People will guess at what is not explained. Regarding management accounting, responsible management is in need of the proven right net profit figures. Period...

Since the publication of my most recent book, Indispensable: Build and Lead A Company Can’t Live Without, last month, I have had the marvelous opportunity to discuss several of the key questions covered in the book with several fellow thought leaders. This 5-part article series captures the essence of those...

They may find out: To start with, cheating is usually a secret and what most people think is that it's ok as long as nobody finds out. However, faith has a strange way of making the plot twist. No one expects to get caught when they misbehave still, not few...

Customer satisfaction is important, there is no much debate on this in modern business as there is vast research that backs the aforementioned statement with data. Yet, despite the parade of evidence that depicts the obvious, many struggle with why and most importantly, what are the actionable steps one should...

The term ‘workplace politics’ comes with a negative connotation - and rightfully so, it’s a nasty game. But unless human nature suddenly changes, workplace politics will continue to be the reality we must deal with. Like it or not, there is a fair amount of political maneuvering going on in...

I remember back in the late 1990s and early 2000s - as a young woman in the tech space in a predominantly male-dominated industry – companies attracted top talent with game rooms, catered happy hours with champagne, and even new car signing bonuses. With that exuberance is long gone, there...

The biggest danger facing an accomplished CEO isn’t another lockdown, competition or technological obsolescence. The looming threat, which is a product of success, is CEO Syndrome: the externally-inflated ego that leads a CEO to be certain of their own judgment and allows them to self-insulate from honest feedback and diversity...

About to present in a room full of your peers, you take one look around and suddenly you don’t feel so good because you feel like a fraud. Don’t feel bad, you’ve only just experienced Imposter Syndrome and this is more common than you think. Imposter Syndrome according to verywellmind.com...

The richest 1% of Americans saw their net worth rise by $4 trillion in 2020 (or captured about 35.2% of the extra wealth generated nationwide), according to the latest data available from the U.S. Federal Reserve. The poorest half of the population, by contrast, got about 4% of overall gains...