And now that we’ve officially embarked on Summer, it’s time for something completely different, as Monty Python famously remarked. Mathematics is a thing apart, like nothing else in our world. It’s a human invention (I think), but not like other inventions. It exists in our minds and nowhere else – although its effects are felt […] Read more

Unless America and Americans force a drastic change in the country’s direction, the American dream is dead, and America’s place as the leader of the world is over.

How will health care evolve from where it is today to where it might be in 25 years? That’s the subject of this blog.

How will health care change over the next 25 years? Here’s one possible scenario.

Could a common cold virus change your body – permanently? I think so.

This is the second in a series of blogs on the likely events of the next 10 years. If we’re lucky, 2010 could be a lousy year. If we’re unlucky, 2010 could be a disastrous year, worse than 2008, because there are potential nasty surprises lurking out there. Such surprises could precipitate another, even worse […] Read more

by futurist Richard Worzel, C.F.A. Ten years seems like an eternity if you’re talking about technology, but is almost nothing if you’re talking about the Earth’s environment, which tends to shift at the pace of geological changes. Yet, the next 10 years should refute that idea. I expect we will see measurable shifts in climate […] Read more

This is a continuation of last week’s discussion of risk management, which appeared under the title Risk Management for 2009 and Beyond. Now let’s turn to some of the methods that can help you with risk management. Remember at the beginning I told you that risk management involved asking the right questions about what might […] Read more

What follows is an amalgam of presentations I made to two risk management groups in very different sectors: one in health care, and the other in insurance. The principles are the same, even though the immediate concerns may differ. Let me start by defining risk management as the process of asking the right questions about […] Read more