Base your self-assessment on whether you were meeting the goals of the company and not your own expectations, says Stephen Xavier, CEO of Cornerstone Executive Development Group, an executive coaching firm in Chapel Hill, N.

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On a Saturday morning in late July of this year, Petraeus invited me to his morning Battle Update Assessment at Victory Base.

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Although the prescription to base your compliance efforts on an assessment of risk is the most basic of common sense axioms, and although it applies generally to your entire compliance program, the Department of Justice has driven the point home and made it clear as well that an anti-corruption risk assessment is an absolute must-do.

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In addition to that, we now find out, courtesy of Bloomberg, that Facebook tried to fudge the assessment of how it might monetize its mobile user base.

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