Internal Threats

An introductory survey of white-collar crime - why it happens, the statutes that reach it, and what that implies for how you document decisions.

Lincoln filled his cabinet with the men he had beaten. Goodwin's account of managing capable dissenters is the best available case for building a senior team that argues.

A defense secretary's account of forcing a vast, well-funded institution to fight the war it was actually in — and of what those decisions cost the people who carried them.

Compliance says permitted; everyone in the room says wrong. Green's moral theory of white-collar crime is the most rigorous attempt to say precisely which wrong, and why it matters.

Sacked and broke in the Depression, Herbert Yardley published what American codebreakers had been reading. He took no documents, only what he knew, and it cost years.

Gavin de Becker spent a career predicting violence. His argument: the unease you cannot yet explain is data. Our review: pre-incident indicators, manufactured trust, and what they mean for diligence.

Almost every corporate fraud was known internally first. Tom Mueller's interviews with whistleblowers show the failure is rarely detection — it is what the organization does to whoever reports.