Yearly Archives: <span>2014</span>
Today’s CIO Must Have Technology, Business and Leadership Skills
CIOs, like most IT professionals, are by their nature problem-solvers, so self-assessments and career reviews often get lost in favor of just getting things done. But that's a mistake. The recent ...
Making the Leap From Manager to Executive
Ask anyone about the hardest career transition, and some will say the transition from college student to entry-level professional has the steepest learning curve. For many, that's true—until they ...
Markel’s Michael Crowley: Former Broker COO Deepening Carrier Sales Culture
Michael Crowley had been in the chief operating role of property/casualty insurance organizations for nearly two decades when he signed on to be an executive for Markel Corp. in 2009. But for all of ...
Why Insurance Execs Should Stop Seeking ‘Big Splash’ Ideas
Imagine an idyllic, pristine beach in Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. A breeze off the ocean holds the scent of flowers. The horizon, naggingly punctuated by tiny container ships, dissolves into the ...
From the Front Lines to the C-Suite: Farmers’ David Travers
When he was taking policyholder phone calls as a customer representative for a direct writing carrier 26 years ago, David Travers did not have designs on a position in the C-suite of an agency ...
Endurance Specialty’s Catherine Kalaydjian: Thriving With Change
Just six months after John Charman took the reins of Endurance Specialty Holdings in May 2013, he announced to the investor community that the management team had been completely restructured. In ...
RLI’s Michael Stone: Managing People Is the Key to COO Role
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…" With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, you might finish that sentence with the phrase "you can be the chief operating officer of a ...
RLI Takes LEAD on Succession Planning With Formal Talent Program
Michael Stone, the chief operating officer of specialty insurer RLI Corp., is perfectly clear about the role of leaders in the property/casualty industry. "At the end of the day, it's all about ...