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| Hello [firstname], Welcome to the March 2010 edition of Flawless Compliance. It’s hard to believe the first quarter of 2010 is already behind us! Time really flies. So I have to ask you, how are you doing with your resolutions for the year? With 25% of the year already gone, you should be making noticeable progress. One of my goals for the year is to commercially publish my first book. Of course, I don’t have complete control over that, but I can do everything in my control to make it happen, which includes the creation of a compelling book proposal. This is not something that’s done overnight. When complete, it will be over 10,000 words of my best work! To keep me on track, I’ve formed an alliance with three others that have the same goal. It’s an authors accountability group. We put a plan in place that we’ve all committed to follow. We have a call every two weeks to check in with each other, and we all hold each other accountable. By the end of May, I’m sure we’ll each have a solid book proposal in place. As a compliance officer, part of your job is to make sure people are doing what they’re supposed to be doing. Although it may feel like police work sometimes, proper accountability keeps people from damaging their reputation and career. They may not appreciate it all the time, but the policies you create and enforce are doing a great service to the people in your organization. Keep up the good work! In this issue, we take a look at the vital role innovation plays in your compliance program. We’ll also see what lessons we can learn from someone who really doesn’t seem to like House Minority Whip Eric Cantor. Thanks for your interest, and if you have something you’d like to say or a question you’d like to ask, please feel free to send me a note, or post a comment on the blog. Best Wishes,
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Reinventing Compliance
How to Build Innovation into your Compliance Program
How much innovation do you have built into your compliance program? It may initially sound counterintuitive, but you should consider innovation as a vital component of your overall attitude to compliance. In the absence of innovation, your compliance program will grow complacent and stale. Obviously, Steve Jobs gets the importance of innovation. According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple recently announced plans to begin producing iPhones that will work on the CDMA network. This would allow them to run on carriers other than AT&T. In addition, the new iPhones, scheduled for a summer release, are likely to be thinner and have a faster processing speed. Apple could leave the iPhone just as it is for a year or so and do just fine in the market, but that’s not good enough. In spite of the iPhone’s huge success, Apple will not be complacent in its product development. Compliance is your product, and you should take the same attitude of constant and never ending improvement...Read More>> |
Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should
Self Journalist Arrested for Threatening Eric Cantor
Norman Leboon is in Congressional soup this month for threatening to kill House Minority Whip Eric Cantor this month. His medium of choice? YouTube. According to Fox News, Leboon recorded a video in which he states: "My Congressman Eric Cantor, and you and your cupcake evil wife... the final Yom Kippur has been given. You are a liar, you're a Lucifer, you're a pig, a greedy f---ing pig, you're an abomination, you receive my bullets in your office, remember they will be placed in your heads. You and your children are Lucifer's abominations." |
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