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Experts: Developing talent and leadership is crucial to success in today's business environment.

With temperatures projected to rise 4 degrees centigrade by 2050, experts no longer talk of reversing climate change, but of adjusting to it.

The warning alarms sounded loudly in Washington. We watched the exhausting political posturing for two torturous weeks. In the end, we saw the U.S. debt limit raised. We did not default on our obligations. We still paid our bills. Soon after, we saw rating agencies showing new muscle and teeth with the first ever AAA downgrade in the U.S. suggesting a slightly higher risk of debt repayment. We saw market behavior that took us on a nauseating rollercoaster ride. And now we sit confused and frustrated as to what this all really means.

John Bender is poised to make Allied World Reinsurance a bigger player than ever and the growth is being built with discipline, dedication and good deeds.

You don't hear a lot about innovation in risk management education or training because there doesn't seem to be all that much different being offered, or so some think. Before I address that fallacy, let's consider the importance of this issue.

Is there such a thing as a stupid policy? We have all been there, listening to customer service representatives citing frustrating corporate policies that do not address our consumer concerns or, ironically, do not solve any of their concerns either.

I remember when I first started to hear the term tweet. It was early 2008 during the presidential race. I asked myself what in heaven's name is this Twitter everyone is talking about?

Analysis of medical claims data reveals important clues about employee health, allowing companies to intervene with those who are most at risk, and to ask hard questions of their carriers at renewal.

Report outlines ways for risk managers to tackle Sarbanes-Oxley requirements with more efficiency.

Perhaps rest is the best way to create innovation.

Data breaches are not a matter of if, but when, for enterprises. To step up to the challenge, organizations will need to implement a risk management plan that employs more than the usual IT fixes.

Practitioners have been using the Total Cost of Risk as a key metric in the discipline for some time.

A Scotsman jumps headlong -- and by "absolute accident" -- into the captive insurance business, turning the study of alternative risk into a thriving career.

Have chief audit and risk executives declared independence from their enterprises? And if they have, can other employees do the same?

Bank of America promotes its cleanser of the Countrywide Financial Corp. subprime portfolio to chief risk officer. The question is: Can one man, or department, handle the risks of a large financial services firm?

Insurance marketing isn't about the masses anymore. It's about the monsters.

Big insurance brokers capitalize on their analytics services by sharing client data with insurers, but does everyone approve?

Aon alleges that a West Coast brokerage stole key members of its construction team. A judge rules that the defectors to Alliant Insurance Services can keep any clients they had when they joined Aon, for now.

Storytelling isn't just important in life, such as when giving a best man's speech at a wedding. It's essential in business, such as when selling risk management strategies to stakeholders.

This is the story of how one insurance agency owner stopped being dumb, fat and happy and got back to making his clients' business personal.