Posts Tagged ‘book review’
Pointers on Setting Compliance Goals
Today we return to the compliance officer bookshelf. I just began reading Get It Done, a newly released book by business professor Ayelet Fishbach, that examines how people can motivate themselves to change their behavior. The first chapter alone raises excellent points about how to set goals that people want to achieve — a subject…
Read MoreA Book for Compliance Entrepreneurs
Good news for compliance professionals slaving away in the corporate world and dreaming of leaving to start your own business: a trio of compliance entrepreneurs just published a book offering guidance on how to do exactly that. The book is The Compliance Entrepreneur’s Handbook: Tools, Tips, and Tactics to Find Your Killer Idea and Create…
Read MoreOut: New Book on Compliance Training
Corporate compliance professionals have another book to consider putting on the shelf, this one exploring how to build a good training program in our era of digital communications and invigorated regulatory scrutiny. The book, Creating Great Compliance Training in a Digital World, is from Kirsten Liston. These days Liston runs Rethink Compliance, a consulting firm…
Read MoreBook Review: Wildly Successful Career in Compliance
Compliance professionals have another career development resource for the bookshelf: How to Have a Wildly Successful Career in Compliance by Kristy Grant-Hart — a slim, easy-to-read volume stuffed with practical insights and useful tips to get ahead in this field we’ve chosen. As it says right in the title, this book is about how to…
Read MoreRecommended Reading for Big Data & GRC
Yes, technology moves fast, but sometimes you come across an old chestnut of guidance about tech that still applies today. That happened to me as I stumbled across a collection of essays about Big Data that offer a bundle of insight about how to use Big Data and cloud computing for better GRC management. The…
Read MoreBook Review: ‘How to Be a Wildly Effective Compliance Officer’
We haven’t had a book review here yet, so let’s turn to one book fresh off the presses and written by one of the compliance community’s own: How to Be a Wildly Effective Compliance Officer, written by Kristy Grant-Hart. Kristy (I have known her for years and refuse to call her “Grant-Hart”) has spent 10…
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