Leadership
PHLY’s New CEO Looks Ahead To Innovation & Profit
Philadelphia Insurance celebrated its 50 anniversary last year—before Robert O'Leary took the helm as chief executive officer. A video on the company's website commemorating the event ends with ...Insurance Salesman By Choice: PHLY’s Robert O’Leary
For Robert O'Leary, the new CEO of Philadelphia Insurance Company, the days when he peeled himself out of the driver's seat of an unairconditioned car to sell casualty insurance policies around ...
How Brains Of Effective Leaders Are Wired
Effective leaders' brains may be physically "wired" to lead, offering the promise of more precise identification and training, according to studies of U.S. Army officers published by the American ...
Breaking Convention
Did the father sit in candlelight and silence? Or did Jean rant and sob? Did he blame himself or his son …after all he had done for him? We shall never know how Monsieur Poquelin greeted abject ...
Meditation and The Art of Investment: Saft
From Ray Dalio to Bill Gross, some of the biggest names in money management are practicing meditation. At a conference last week in Washington, Dalio expounded on how his practice of meditation has ...
O’Leary Set To Lead PHLY’s High Achievers & Loyal Soldiers
Although the name of the senior-most officer of Philadelphia Insurance is changing, just about everything else is going to stay the same at the 51-year old specialty insurance company, according to ...
Compensation Growth Slowed For CEOs Outside Of Insurance Industry In 2012
Those property/casualty insurance carrier chief executives who saw lower increases in their pay levels in 2012 than in 2011 had plenty of company, according to a report from Towers Watson. Growth in ...
Thatcher’s Legacy: Citadel of Finance Atop Once-Derelict London Docks
Where a maze of derelict warehouses and old cranes once testified to Britain's decline, glass skyscrapers teeming with traders now dominate London's docks, a metaphor - for good and ill - for ...