Book Review

Compliance Book of the Month: Cyber War

May 17, 2010

You can’t help but wonder how much Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security, was written to enhance the reputation and revenue stream of its primary author, Richard Clarke. After all, he was the anti-terrorism official from the Clinton and Bush Administrations who publicly apologized in 2004 for failing...
 

Compliance Book of the Month: Switch

April 20, 2010

We don’t often talk about the importance of psychology in corporate compliance. That’s unfortunate, because most of a compliance officer’s work ultimately stems from employees behaving badly, or from efforts to make them not behave badly. That’s why Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, is worth putting...
 

Compliance Book of the Month: Money for Nothing

March 14, 2010

The book Money for Nothing can be summed up in one sentence: The boards running corporations in America today are ineffective. But while that sentence may be accurate, it is not news to corporate compliance and governance officers, so those of you looking for a more substantive analysis or solutions...
 

Compliance Book of the Month: Too Big to Save

February 15, 2010

For a while now I’ve wanted to start a Compliance Week book club. We get a small but steady stream of books here at CW Central Command examining corporate governance from various angles—some of them quite good, others clearly hitching a brief ride on the governance bandwagon until the fad...
 

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