August 6, 2023 - Compliance Podcast Network

Sunday Book Review: August 6, 2023 – The Summer Business Books Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive or anyone who might be curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, I continue my summer exploration of books on crime. Today, the summer’s top business books as curated by FT Columnist Andrew Hill.

How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
Risky Business by Amy Finkelstein, Liran Einav and Ray Fisman
Wonder Boy by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans
The Case for Good Jobs by Zeynep Ton
The Four Workarounds by Paulo Savaget

Resource

Andrew Hill: Best Summer Books: Business in FT

Trekking Through Compliance: Episode 66 – Wink of an Eye

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Wink of an Eye which aired on November 29, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 5710.5

While exploring an outer quadrant of the Galaxy, the Enterprise receives a distress call from the planet Scalos. However, a landing party cannot locate the transmission’s source. Kirk thinks he detects the buzzing of insects, but the tricorder does not register them. Queer goings-on follows when Compton disappears right in front of McCoy.

After their return to the Enterprise, malfunctions occur aboard the ship, which cannot be explained. Kirk correctly concludes that aliens have been beamed aboard. Spock detects an alien machine being installed into the environmental control, but when Spock attempts to disconnect the machine, he is prevented by a force field. Kirk then disappears.

Kirk makes a tape for Spock in which he explains all this. McCoy discovers the tape, and Spock reads it by greatly slowing it down. Spock then speeds himself up, and the Scalosians are returned to their planet to live out the rest of their lives, recognizing that the Federation will not permit any more Starships to enter the area.