Aon-Willis and the Continuing Evolution of HR Consultants into Risk Advisors

I almost deleted the newsfeed in my email yesterday about Aon Corporation and Willis Towers Watson’s plan to merge in an all-stock deal. This was last year’s news, wasn’t it? Or was it a couple of days ago? And didn’t that deal fall through? I scratched my head. It seemed like another instance of gaslight-by-technology, like when Alexa blurts out “Sorry, I don’t know that” when you never asked a question. The first thing I had to do was to confirm this news was current and real. It was.