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Real Skills for E&C Professionals: Creating Successful Alliances in our Organizations 🤗

Pauline Blondet, November 24 2023

Ranging from communication to leadership to problem solving to creativity and governing how we interact with teams, we don't really learn them at school or university. And yet, no matter how savvy we are technically, these skills can make or break our success as a human working with other humans in any organization. Even though they are harder...

279 millions or the price to blow the whistle💰

Pauline Blondet, May 12 2023

The SEC announced on 5 May 2023 the largest award ever granted to a whistleblower: 279 million USD granted to someone “whose information and assistance led to the successful enforcement of SEC and related actions.” (SEC Press release - 5 May 2023). Of course, apart from wondering whether I chose the right career path to fast retirement on a...

🥕Sticks & Carrots🏒 for Ethics & Compliance - navigating incentives and rewards for today's humans

Pauline Blondet, March 24 2023

Early March this year, the US Department Of Justice published revisions to its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs. The main changes in this latest release relate to compensation structures and how we handle consequences of misconduct. Moreover, the DOJ unveiled its new Pilot Program, where the main focus is - again - on incentives vs....