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Clark Conine

Hiring
August 6, 2017

Execs and Boards: 10 Questions to Align the Business Strategy with Your HR Strategy

Driving Acquisition and Retention of Top Talent In a study of the top risks for 2017, over 700 participating C-level executives and directors rated succession challenges and the inability to attract and retain top talent as the sixth-highest risk. Holding its position as a near top-five issue consistent with surveys…
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Leadership and career
August 2, 2017

Heroes Don’t Have Comfort Zones

Squelching Fear to Make the Tough Calls When conventional approaches don’t cut the mustard, it’s time to give the unconventional a try. That’s what successful leaders tend to do, and it’s a common trait among heroes, too. Both groups are so often the ones to make the tough calls, take…
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Leadership and career
July 26, 2017

3 Workplace Trends You Shouldn’t Ignore

For the first time, there can be as many as five generations working together in the office, and each age group comes with its own preferences and perspectives on how and where work should be done. It’s important for employers to be in tune with what their workers want and…
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Leadership and career
July 24, 2017

How to End Indecision

Overcoming Analysis Paralysis If you’ve been part of a decision-making collective, you’re probably familiar with the phrase “death by committee.” When there are too many cooks in the proverbial kitchen, it can be nearly impossible to come to a consensus – or even land on a solution in a reasonable…
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Leadership and career
July 14, 2017

10 Strategies to Be a More Successful Leader

No doubt there are hurdles each of us face on the path to professional success, but often those obstacles are of our own making. Linda Henman shares guidance to help executives, business leaders and virtually any professional get out of his or her own way. As my clients began to…
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Leadership and career
July 5, 2017

Managing Your Ethical Culture

This article was republished with permission from Michael Volkov’s blog, Corruption, Crime & Compliance. In the wake of ever-constant business scandals (e.g. ZTE, VW, Takata, Odebrecht), chief compliance officers have to refresh their approach and strategy. Everyone agrees, or at least I think they should agree, that a company's most effective control…
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Leadership and career
June 26, 2017

Facing Change with Confidence

In a global survey involving over 700 board members and executives across multiple industries, one of the top 10 risks cited was that resistance to change may restrict an entity's ability to make necessary adjustments to its business model and core operations. This finding is important for many reasons. Change…
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Compliance
June 22, 2017

5 Common Mistakes Chief Compliance Officers Make (And How to Avoid Them)

Chief Compliance Officers are fallible – I know that is not a controversial statement. To err is human, and CCOs are members of the human species. With the enormous expectations placed on CCOs' shoulders, they are bound to make some mistakes. I have seen CCOs who have run into difficulties,…
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Leadership and career
June 21, 2017

3 Strategies for Retaining Top Talent, Starting with Letting Them Breathe

What's the fastest way to lose your star talent? Drive your employees into the ground. Sure, "weekends at the office" persist in the corporate world. But in an age of always-connected-communication, is that the best strategy for attracting and keeping your stars while grooming a company's future leaders? Corporate leaders…
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Compliance
June 14, 2017

The 2 Most Important Words in a Compliance Dictionary

This article was republished with permission from Michael Volkov’s blog, Corruption, Crime & Compliance. Humans have an innate desire to complicate things. When it comes to ideas, professionals are no different; compliance consultants, lawyers, financial advisers and others enjoy solving complicated problems. Such an approach, however, does a disservice to clients and…
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