MenuA piece published on CorpCounsel.com entitled Watch your Languages in International Compliance caught my eye the other day. This is in part because it amazes me that anyone is still trying to convince anyone about publishing anti-corruption and other compliance materials for your employees that speak languages other than English; of course you have to do this, and I believe few people would argue the point. Not surprisingly, appropriate translation of compliance materials was listed as a “Hallmark of Effective Compliance Programs” in the FCPA Resource Guide published by the DOJ and SEC in 2012.
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Feb 09, 2015 •
2/9/2015: In a post on the FCPA blog Troy Carlton writes, “Many business organizations today, despite decades of research and findings to the contrary, don’t understand the benefits of emotional intelligence (the soft skills). They don't get it that when leaders connect better with employees, and employees connect better with...
Feb 02, 2015 •
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Jan 06, 2015 •
1/6/15: When you’re planning out 2015’s compliance goals, activities, and projects, it’s probably a good idea to look back at what happened in 2014. Matteson Ellis gives a helping hand with an article featured on Corporate Compliance Insights (reprinted with permission from Ellis’ FCPAmericas Blog). The article, “What FCPA Enforcement was Thinking...
Oct 29, 2014 •
In a recent entry on his always excellent blog, SCCE CEO Roy Snell talks about a study in which the use of the word “because” is shown to be powerfully effective in influencing others. (“We need to leave now” is presumably less effective than “We need to leave now because we are about to be late.”) Roy makes a point about the quality and integrity of the “because.” “We need to formulate our “because”… thoughtfully before we ask people to do things,” he says. “People can see through and are not motivated by the ‘manufactured because.’”
