Lyzbeth Bertoli

“A good Board Of Directors team is one where ideas are flowing fluidly - and where each idea is met with an initial welcome, an intellectual challenge, an expression of gratitude, a rigorous scrutiny and a readiness for action.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Insurance is important in business. It just makes sense that we share risk for low probability high impact events.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Companies can learn a lot from biological systems. The human immune system for example is adaptive, redundant, diverse, modular, data-driven and network collaborative. A company that desires not just short term profit but also long term resilience should apply these features of the human immune system to it's business models and company structure.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“As companies age they tend to become more reliant on extracting value from their past successes and less desirous of innovating. It's every CEO's job to ensure the company rejects this tendency and instead chooses to embrace both the capital of past success and the capital of present innovation.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr