Leadership
EverQuote, Bold Penguin Team to Launch Commercial Lines Marketplace
EverQuote, a Massachusetts-based online personal insurance marketplace, is pairing with technology platform provider Bold Penguin to launch a commercial lines marketplace. EverQuote said it will use ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chubb Chief Digital Officer Ringsted Sounds Off on Innovation, ITC and the Future
Sean Ringsted was one of the 7,000 or so people who attended the 2019 InsureTech Connect Conference, held Sept. 23 to 25 in Las Vegas. Ringsted is executive vice president, chief digital officer and ...
Help Your Employees Motivate Themselves
Your team members are dragging their feet completing their tasks and failing to proactively address problems. Your first instinct is probably to ask, "How can I motivate my team?" But that's the ...
A Trailblazer in the Lloyd’s Marketplace Looks Back and Ahead
It took enormous courage to walk into Lloyd's for the first time and into the underwriting room—also known as "The Room." I was a very junior broker with absolutely no experience, tasked with ...
Spiritual and Emotional Capacity: 2 Qualities That Great Leaders Need
Spiritual and emotional capacity are two qualities that leaders might want to nurture in themselves and their teams. A recent posting with the Leadership Freak blog by the author Robert Glazer ...