A Cure for Panic Attacks

By Sharon S. Schwartzman

What should insurance IT leadership do when the financial markets commonly are described as being a devastating bloodbath, hit by a train or in a terrifying plummet, a spectacular free-fall, or a stomach-crunching meltdown? Alternately greed and fear have been driving the market. And now, at press time, the stock market has hit a five-year low with unprecedented slides, and despite some rallies, there is nowhere left to hide. Every corner of the planet has been negatively affected to varying degrees. So, besides going somewhere secluded and letting out a cathartic primal scream, what's next?

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