We seem to have been writing and speaking a good deal lately about change — the changes undertaken during the COVID pandemic, the changes that could have and should have been considered before the COVID pandemic, and the changes we should be undertaking now in anticipation of the next pandemic or the next catastrophic business […]
Everyone seems to be talking about 2020, the coronavirus pandemic, and the lessons they’ve learned from both. What lessons did you learn? Have you looked for them? We mean really looked. Are you sure? Objectively speaking, it was a year of change. It had to be. As we were reminded constantly, the old normal was […]
We’re old enough to remember the days when our grandmothers would come to our childhood homes to help out with some of the chores. As she was washing the dishes by hand, we’d say, “But Gram, we have a dishwasher.” As she was washing the clothes by hand, we’d say, “But Gram, we have a […]
You might be surprised at how many times people ask us what Finys stands for. For a while, we thought about trying to make it an acronym. But in case you haven’t tried it, finding useful words that start with y is pretty tough. The best we could come up with was Finys Is Now Your […]
We’re in the midst of March Madness. We love the games and everything. But one of our favorite parts of the experience is that we get to hear any number of coaches and players in the innumerable post-game interviews saying things like this: “We have to take our game to the next level.” Or this: […]
’Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes. (The Cobbler of Preston by Christopher Bullock, 1716) Many of us are, no doubt, familiar with those two most famous examples of certainty. And the fact is, everything else is pretty much up for grabs. Flash back to the end of February 2020. […]
Like seeing a car you’ve never seen before or learning a word you never knew before, as soon as you see the car or learn the word, they seem to be everywhere. Such is the case with digitalization. So, we weren’t surprised at all to see a Transunion consumer study, the results of which were […]
The January edition of Best’s Review contained an article entitled, “Turning a Corner”. The article was about so-called insurtechs (as if insurtechs are something other than the insurance technology we’ve known, loved, developed, and used for decades.) It said this, in part: Through the Great Depression, there were as many as 300 U.S. auto manufacturers. But […]
We once heard a story about the town of Uxbridge, Massachusetts. According to the story, many years ago, it took the people of Uxbridge 50 years to figure out the sewage in the Blackstone River, which flows through the town and was stinking up the place, didn’t actually come from Uxbridge. We’re fairly certain gravity […]
No matter how you slice it, 2021 is going to be an extraordinary year, if for no other reason than it follows 2020. Need we say more? Consequently, we thought it appropriate to come up with an equally extraordinary list of New Year’s resolutions and to share them here. So, as a public service, here […]
