The Way to Mere Folly

The boys' journey and reflections illustrate their time in the insurance industry, recounting how they started in the business, how they saw it develop and where it is going. Living with insurance and watching it evolve over many years they now have an understanding of the various factions involved, the conventional Employees, the Puppets, the Figureheads and The Powers That Be. The boys are beginning to understand that it's not the people involved in the industry that are...
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The boys' journey and reflections illustrate their time in the insurance industry, recounting how they started in the business, how they saw it develop and where it is going.
Living with insurance and watching it evolve over many years they now have an understanding of the various factions involved, the conventional Employees, the Puppets, the Figureheads and The Powers That Be. The boys are beginning to understand that it's not the people involved in the industry that are driving the change, there is an alternative influence orchestrating its evolution.
While the conventional Employees are there only to do their jobs and don't really care; there are the Puppets that have clawed their way out of the rut, making it to the next level by one means or another. However, they do not realise that to them falls the ultimate responsibility of getting the work done with little or no support from those underneath or those above them. Pulling the strings of the Puppets are the Figureheads, those with the status and perks. The gap between the Employees and the Puppets continues to widen as the perks of the Figureheads continue to increase. Company cars that are only used to get them backwards and forwards to and from home, the ability to live off their tax-free expense accounts, liberally used for booze, lunches, dinners and travel opportunities.
The Figureheads are being used, manipulated and continually brainwashed. Behind their backs a revolution is quietly taking place, as The Powers That Be are quietly taking control of where the insurance world has or had its influence and are making sure that its philosophy perishes and doesn't impact the future.
As Bob Dylan said, "times they are a changing".