With so many compliance lessons to be learned from the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) imbroglio, it’s difficult to know where to start. It’s even more difficult to avoid collapsing into caricature when you consider the $26,000 goody bag watches that weren’t declared by most executives because their value was deemed “trivial” or the luxury Manhattan condo rented solely for unruly cats.
Amid the amusing anecdotes, there’s a very real collapse of leadership, especially with respect to creating a culture of compliance.
