IDG recently released its Top Tech Quotes of 2010. A video of the quotes includes words from such deep thinkers as Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, and Lady Gaga. Her views on digital photography are particularly enlightening.
Of course, they don't get specific to insurance technology. So I'm asking you for some help on putting together another list; this one on what stories and interviews from Tech Decisions and Tech-Decisions.com that you most enjoyed in 2010.
The selections–and I'm the final arbiter of this discussion–will be included in our final e-newsletter of 2010.
I really do appreciate your help on this. If there was a story you particularly enjoyed, let me know and it will get careful consideration. And if the article happened to be written by me, so much the better.
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From the sublime to the ridiculous, I bring you the story of Harvey Cruz, former IT manager for the Million Dollar Round Table.
It seems Cruz and an associate have been charged with felony theft of over $1.1 million from the MDRT.
That dollar figure doesn't quite reach the level of botching a policy administration project, but it certainly causes problems for the MDRT. The state's attorney's office in Cook County, Illinois believes Cruz was the brains of the operation.
(Which calls to mind my favorite movie quote from the underrated The Way of the Gun when James Caan asks Benicio del Toro if he's the brains of the operation. "To tell ya the truth," he responds. "I don't think this is a brains kind of operation.").
Cruz allegedly recruited a partner to submit bills to MDRT that Cruz would then approve. Cruz and the second man, James Lurito, are charged with splitting the proceeds from this scheme.
The MDRT hasn't addressed the issue on its Web site, but they did offer something useful, what they refer to as Power Phrase of the Day. This is from Charles F. Donoghue, a personal development coach from New Zealand: "To try something where there is little hope of success is to risk failure, but to not try guarantees it."
I'm not sure that refers to criminal activity, though.
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