Executive Viewpoint
Clarity Critical for Startups in Crisis
Personally, my experience at a startup in 2008 taught me that in times of disaster there is a huge premium on both capital and clarity. The capital you have available may be beyond your control based ...
My First Days of Leadership—During a Global Pandemic
A global pandemic was certainly not in my 90-day plan when I assumed this role in February, but it's shaping how my leadership team and I are leading today and will lead in the future. From the start ...
Flexibility and Patience Helping Insurance Leader Through COVID Challenges
Over the years, I have been described as "old school" or "set in his ways." Having been in the insurance business since June 1, 1977, I guess there is a legitimate reason. I am getting old. Never in ...
What Reinsurance Execs Say About Social Inflation
While some observers reported a letup in social inflation during COVID-19 lockdown periods, reinsurance executives speaking at a recent conference said they fear U.S. jury verdicts and settlements ...
Finding Common Ground: Beware Of Always Or Never
Let's start with the normal distribution curve. Have I lost you already? Most of us know the normal distribution curve, also known as a bell curve. It sits on an x/y axis. It starts low, gradually ...
The Revolution Is Here: What Insurance Leaders Need to Know
Long before cellphones, Starbucks and Twitter, there was insurance. You can look back to the advent of society and find some form of the concept. In 4000 BCE Babylon, contracts protected merchants ...
Cyber Turned Inside-Out: Three Years After NotPetya
The NotPetya malware attack of June 2017 changed the future of cyber insurance and the way companies manage the risk. Initially believed to be a ransomware attack, NotPetya instead wiped data from ...
‘Casual Collisions’ and ‘Sharper Focus’
I could never have anticipated fully what the next months would bring after Westfield initiated its business continuity plan on March 12, 2020. My company's response was energetic and focused, so ...