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Five Steps to Build Emotional Intelligence
During a talk he gave to an audience of business leaders last year, psychologist Daniel Goleman discussed the impact of various leadership styles on teams, starting with the most positive ...
Stop Hiring for Insurance, Tech Smarts; Hire for EI to Find True Leaders
On the second day of a two-day business and innovation event late last year, close to 2,500 executives sitting in the audience of Lincoln Center auditorium held their breath—literally—about 20 ...
China’s Ping An Insurance Boosts Q3 Profit Through Investment and Banking Income Gains
Ping An Insurance (Group) Co., China's largest insurer by market value, said third-quarter profit jumped 50 percent thanks to higher investment returns and banking income. Net income rose to 31.9 ...
Beazley Makes Strategic Investment in Hong Kong’s Pegasus Underwriting
Beazley, the London-based specialist insurer, is making a strategic investment in Hong Kong-based coverholder Pegasus Underwriting Ltd. The investment will see Beazley become a 30 percent shareholder ...
What Do Power Outages, Wildfires and Vaping Bans Have in Common?
Power outages, wildfires and vaping bans do not appear similar at all, but in the rush to protect consumers and constituents from harm, companies and state legislators may be creating an entirely ...
Reserve Charge Dents Travelers Earnings; Execs See ‘More Room’ for Rate Hikes
Challenges that fueled prior-year loss reserve development of nearly $300 million at Travelers aren't a problem that is unique to the insurer, executives noted during an third-quarter 2019 earnings ...
How Companies with Bottom-Line Focused CEOs Perform
Doing business with a tunnel-vision focus on the bottom line can lead to dysfunction and unethical conduct in the workplace, but a research study co-authored by Rutgers School of Management and Labor ...
Secretive CEO Bonus Pay Targets Linked With Poor Performance
Investors need to pay closer attention to the non-financial measures linked to CEO cash bonuses, because targets that are not disclosed, or undefined, in annual reports are associated with worse ...