Leadership Guru Tom Peters
Delivers Keynote Address
Well-known author and business thinker Tom Peters delivered
the Annual Meeting keynote address yesterday and talked about “Leadership.”
After congratulating the 1,322 new designees, Peters shared his insightful
knowledge of management and leadership, stressing the importance of
using creativity to excel. "The ability to be independent-minded and
technically up-to-date professionals is not important, it's imperative,"
he said, explaining that no company or individual is immune from becoming
obsolete in today's competitive business world. "If you don't like change,
you're going to like irrelevance even less."
CPCUs Reach for
the Stars with Career Development and Technical Seminars
The second full day of the CPCU Society’s Annual Meeting featured
another whole array of career development and technical seminars. Yesterday’s
highlights included: Crisis…What Crisis? explored what to
do the next time a crisis hits and how to manage the crisis so that the
organization and clients maintain financial results, brand, reputation,
and relationships with employees, customers, and suppliers; Ethics—Be
a Leader instructors reviewed the ethical crisis in the United States
today and acquainted participants with Lawrence Kohlberg’s six stages
of moral reasoning; Toxic Mold: Where is the Coverage? this timely
seminar addressed how property is damaged from mold, when mold loss occurs
and the insurance issues involved in mold in both commercial and personal
lines.
Society Expo Gives Meeting Attendees Time to See Latest P/C Technology
Resources
The
CPCU Society Expo, and exposition of P/C information, products, services,
and technology, concluded yesterday with a special reception and prize
drawings. More than 50 insurance-related companies participated in the
Expo, giving CPCUs another opportunity to learn about the latest in
property and casualty resources available to them. The afternoon's prize
drawing and reception, which was sponsored by USAA, drew large crowds
for great giveaways, including a Canon digital camera, Bose acoustic
wave radio, and Hewlett-Packard laptop computer.
Geophysicist
Thomas Jordan, Ph. D. Gives Talk on Earth’s Evolution
CPCUs
attending the Loman Luncheon were shook up with an enlightening talk
by Tomas Jordan, Ph.D., the director of the Southern California Earthquake
Center and the former head of MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric,
and Planetary Sciences. He discussed his research, specifically those
involving earthquakes, the seismological study of earth structure and
geodetic observations of plate motions and interplate deformation. The
luncheon was sponsored by the CPCU-Loman Education Foundation, which
is dedicated to fostering excellence in insurance education and related
areas.
