Leadership
The Most Admired Leaders Are Straight Shooters and Take Ownership of Their Mistakes
Executives: Be straightforward and take ownership of the mistakes you make. Why does this matter? Those two traits are among important ones displayed by the most admired leaders, according to a ...
CEO Interview: Metromile Shaking Up the Auto Insurance Industry With a Lifestyle Product
Metromile is one of the early InsurTech companies. It is also one of only a few InsurTechs that is really transforming the insurance business. Most InsurTechs focus on operating efficiencies in ...
Make Sure Your Company’s Leadership Development Programs Have Staying Power
Leadership development programs at companies are one thing. But they don't have much staying power outside of the classroom unless executives plan for long-term implementation of the key ideas. A ...
Five Leadership Lessons From an Insurance Industry VP
Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate—or purpose-driven enough—to have worked for companies that value leadership. One of my early jobs was with a wildly successful software company ...
Build a Better Company by Recognizing Employees Who Do Things the ‘Right’ Way
One way to be a good leader is to proactively search for and recognize employees who are doing things the right way. That's a tip from Bruce Jones, senior cast development director at the Disney ...
Chubb CEO Greenberg Continues Push for a More Humane (and Business-Savvy) Immigration Policy
For the second year running, Chubb Chairman and CEO Evan Greenberg is railing against the U.S.'s current immigration policy. Greenberg, without mentioning U.S. President Donald Trump by name, used ...
Finance Companies in the UK Make Little Progress in Reducing Gender Pay Gap
Women working in the U.K.'s financial-services industry are seeing little improvement in their pay parity with male colleagues, according to the latest batch of disclosures as this year's reporting ...
Leaving Your Work Silos in Place Can Contribute to Dishonest Company Culture
Executives might want to try harder to make sure their companies' various silos communicate and work better together with each other. That's because poor "cross-functional collaboration" can lead to ...