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The World Bank

Transparency International

OAS Anti-Corruption Page

International Chamber of
Commerce

Anti-Corruption Resource
Centre

OECD Anti-Corruption Group

Canadian Centre for Ethics
and Corporate Policy

Center for Ethical Business
Cultures

Global Integrity

Business Anti-Corruption
Portal

Ethics World



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                                  The Cost of an Opportunity

Let’s start with the big picture. The World Bank estimates that bribery alone costs the
world about one trillion dollars annually in direct economic loss.

That’s
every year.

By simple extrapolation one can safely assume that the world’s losses from all forms of
corruption, malfeasance and wrongdoing are at least three trillion dollars a year. And, if
you have a problem picturing this much cash, imagine 600 railway cars creaking under
30,000 metric tons of $100 bills (for comparison, $50,000 is just half a kilo.) These $3
trillion – amount larger than the GDP of France or Germany – are simply wasted every
year. You could as well picture those hundreds of rail cars burning…

Meanwhile just one tenth of this amount, a still whopping $300 billion (nearly the GDP of
Argentina) could feed all hungry, re-build a few poor countries like Haiti or Afghanistan,
save tropical forests or even reverse global warming in our lifetime. Name your cause
and, if money can solve it at all, it can be solved by an annual infusion of 300 billion
dollars …Which is, again, only 1/10th of the money that is lost every year due to bribery,
malfeasance and abuse.

Can we turn this $3,000,000,000,000 a year problem into a $3,000,000,000,000
opportunity?

Yes, but not with noise, red tape, and prisons, the way we’ve always tried. We posed the
following three questions to professionals in the fields of law-enforcement and
compliance management:

1)  How many additional auditors, detectives, prosecutors, and various watchdogs (to
police the policemen, etc.) do we need to defeat corruption and malfeasance in the entire
world, both in government agencies and in the private sector (i.e. Enron and
WorldCom)?  

2)  How much would such a “Global War on Corruption” cost? (Add the cost of new courts
and prisons as well.)

3)  If the funding for the “war” were to end on the day of corruption’s defeat, how long
would the results of the victory last?

The answers came to:  
1)  Tens of millions of people;  
2)  Hundreds of billions of dollars;  
3)  About a week… Just like jealousy and greed, corruption is self-creating, self-sustaining
phenomenon.

The numbers sound realistic, yet they show the insanity of traditional approaches to
fighting corruption. Which government can employ millions of people and spend
countless billions (upfront!) to buy such a fleeting victory? What can a poor government
do?  

- Perhaps read the rest of this page, because we came with radically different answers:
1) Not a person.
2) Not a penny.
3) Forever.     

Okay, you must be skeptical: if you've ever fought corruption and malfeasance (and we
have), you know that even transparency - the cornerstone of modern anti-corruption
campaigns - requires competent people to dig through mountains of data,
unambiguously show malfeasance, and then have a voice powerful enough to demand
change.  At the end of the day, all conventional anti-corruption and compliance methods
are either expensive or ineffective, or both.

It doesn’t have to be this way.  At its core, corruption and malfeasance result from the
failure of administrative systems to control selfish entrepreneurial urges of people. These
entrepreneurial urges are rooted in self-interest and cannot be permanently removed by
more prosecutors, more technology or moral education: selfish entrepreneurship (often
called “capitalism”) seems to win every time. However, our proprietary management
system solves the problem by working with people’s selfish interests, instead of against
them, shrinking corruption very quickly and profitably.

                          People Cheat, Systems Don’t

Have you heard the famous expression that the American democratic system was
“designed by geniuses to be run by idiots”?  Regardless of the degree of its literal truth,
the phrase reveals the idea that instead of relying on goodness of individual actors, a
high-quality organizational system should enhance people’s ability to create positive
outcomes while effectively canceling out their bad, including corrupt, tendencies.

We designed such a system. While we can’t publish it out here (it can be profitably used
in any commercial setting) below is a quick look of how it works.

The system capitalizes on the fact that people generally act in remarkably predictable
patterns, with members of established organizations acting especially predictably. It uses
the basic human factors of self-interest and peer-pressure - the same fuel that leads to
malfeasance in the first place - to replace corrupt behaviors with productive ones.
Indeed, the system makes even the most dishonest employees participate in removing
malfeasance from their organizations themselves.  

                        “It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief”

In a perennially theft-ridden dairy plant where our method was first used, thefts by
employees plunged by 90% in the first two months.  On top of this, without any push from
the managers, the employees reduced production-related losses (considered in the
industry as “normal”) by an unbelievable 80%, moving the factory from chronic arrears to
a consistent surplus in production.

In another situation, a construction unit staffed with former felons and delinquents who
took great pride in never filling their quotas started fulfilling daily quotas by lunch-time
within days of implementing our model.

In every case employee morale went through the roof and management was elated to
switch their attention from employee control to more important business tasks.

No, the success didn’t mean that the previously slothful, incompetent and dishonest had
miraculously acquired new personalities (not overnight, anyway.)  It simply meant that
within their groups the employees drove each other to behave far more productively, and
that drive for personal and team satisfaction led to skyrocketing productivity which beat
the performance of even honest, more competent and hard-working people organized in
more conventional teams.  

Instead of the usual red tape, our system employs the peer-driven verify-and-trust
method that fluidly changes the allocation of trust to each individual within the
organization. Not even the smartest rule-breakers can fool it: the system rapidly adapts
to their level of sophistication, and they either give up wrongdoing or are weeded out by
their own peers. Where bosses and outside watchdogs might fail to spot a well-
camouflaged elephant, peers organized in this particular fashion won’t miss a thing.

At the very same time the system gives people a ready outlet for their entrepreneurial
urges, channeling those urges towards organizationally valuable/profitable outcomes,
and since the system starts to work in every nook and cranny of the organization at
once, it cleans even the most ethically challenged places faster and more thoroughly
than any other approach.    

                                   Whatever, Whenever

Our experience and research confirms that this universal management/governance
system will work equally well in any nation, any industry and in an organization of any
size: from a small government office to an entire government structure of a country like
China; from a family-owned shop to the largest multi-national corporations. In technology
parlance, ours happened to be an “infinitely scalable” system: if you can de-corrupt a
small group, you can do the same for an entire government. Don't forget: even massive
organizations consists of small groups of people lumped into larger ones.

Whatever your definition of corruption and malfeasance -  bribery, misallocation of funds,
employee theft, or unethical behavior of various forms - our method can end it without
new watchdogs and prisons. Privacy advocates should particularly note that the system
does not require wide-open public transparency and thus rarely brings bad publicity to
the agency/organization.

Because our system
automatically brings out the best in people and reduces the worst in
them, one need not have even a single conscientious employee before adopting it.  As
long as there is someone capable of ordering the system to be put in place, that is
enough.  Once installed, the system starts a non-stop cycle of "behavior purification"
within the organization, making even the dishonest eliminate wrongdoing with their own
hands: first, they stop the worst behaviors, then second-worst, and so on, rapidly raising
the bar of acceptable conduct.  

Despite such a seemingly gradual approach, even in a worst-case scenario, where
installation of the system is sabotaged by management, one can fully expect all forms of
illegal and unethical behavior to decline by half every six months (although in most cases
malfeasance will fold by half every month.)  Continued use of our system will result in a
permanent solution.

                                       No Cost solution

The use of our system costs our clients nothing.  Unless our “ounce of cure” starts to
bring pounds (or literally tons and rail cars full) of savings and profit, it is totally free.  In
fact, we would gladly pay back the implementation costs as a guarantee that the system
works. However, its users have no such costs – the implementation is nothing more than
the usual administrative activity whose intensity
decreases upon the system’s adoption:
i.e. savings begin right away.  What’s our gain, you might ask? – A percentage of the
solution related savings/profits that the business or government will enjoy.  We are
talking a small fraction of the money which can’t be realized without our help.        

We encourage potential users to explore all other methods first.  As you can see, we
even compiled the links to other anti-corruption and pro-ethics websites for convenience.
The potential users should call us after they know that other methods won’t work to their
complete satisfaction.  Then we’ll gladly help them clean out all wrongdoing that is still left
in their organization or the entire government structure.

                                   Note to concerned citizens

If we continue to battle corruption and malfeasance the way we’ve done it for centuries:
creating more red tape and bloating oversight bureaucracies, we will continue to do so
for generations to come.  However, if we use the simple (and effectively free!)
organizational tools available here today, we can eliminate corruption in no time and
recover not just the annual $3 trillion that are lost to the world overtly, but create another
$3 - 5 trillion lost in hidden economic value which is explained on the next page (
"More".)  
So, dear friends, point to your leaders that the elimination of corruption and waste is no
longer a matter of resources, expertise and possibilities. It’s a matter of choice: do you
want it or not?

                                              info@CorruptionManagement.com