From New Zealand 24 August: Bosses “biggest cheats”
Middle managers are the most common corporate fraudsters with more than $40 million of defrauded funds over 18 months only the “tip of the iceberg” according to a KPMG survey.
Need an international example to flesh this story out? No problemo:
KPMG accountancy chief fiddled £545,000 to pay for his new wife’s £15,000-a-month luxury tastes.
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I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges
Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in
I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big
In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason
I really enjoy Chris Rodgers’ views on leadership. He argues against the assumption that it takes great leadership for organisations to succeed. He suggests that
Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like
I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Well now you need wonder no more. A friend told me about this (no, seriously… my Feedster feed on improvisation turned it up). Is it
Hilarious performance by Ira Glass on a pledge drive for public radio, which is good listening for anyone wondering how to get people to value what is given away free….
That’s one of the snappy lines from this 10 min animated version of Jeremy Rifkin’s talk at the RSA: The Empathic Civilisation.I liked his linking of empathy with reality. (Reminds
…asks The Londonist reporting Benylin’s campaign to have us download different sorts of coughs as ringtones. Their website emits coughing noises too. The PR spin is that they’re trying to
As the internet distributes information and intelligence it gets easier and easier to do a bit of pattern spotting and identify mismatches… and then share them with the world. Jeff
