Leadership
Humility Helps First-Time Managers Build Stellar Reputations
So you're a first-time manager, an executive on the rise. How do you approach the employees who serve under you? Humility is a better approach than taking on a nascent leadership role with guns ...
How to Build a More Diverse Leadership Pipeline in the Insurance Industry
The value of diversity is well recognized today. Yet study after study finds that the pipeline of women narrows at each successive level of most organizations. While we see milestones in the number ...
Boost’s Maffeo Hacks Through Insurance Industry Glaciers With InsurTech MGA
Alex Maffeo, founder and chief executive officer of InsurTech startup Boost Insurance, didn't dream of working in insurance when he was a kid. He wanted to play shortstop for the Yankees or be the ...
How a Confluence of Generations Is Leading Our Industry Into the Future
The insurance industry has never been more diverse than it is today, and that diversity extends far beyond the ratios of men to women. Four of the six living generations are now laboring side by side ...
Great Leaders Dive Right Into Turbulence, With a Plan and Clear Goals
Great leaders never run from turbulence. Instead, they dive right into it, with a goal of improving the situation. That's the conclusion forwarded in a recent Leadership Freak blog posting by ...
Argo Shareholder Accuses CEO Watson of Pursuing ‘Shockingly High’ Corporate Expenses
An Argo Group shareholder is nominating four new directors to counter what it alleges are "shockingly high" corporate expenses including pricy real estate, an office art collection, and CEO Mark ...
The Art of Magnetic Communication: 10 Secrets of Great Leaders
No one ever became a great leader without first becoming a great communicator. And no one ever became a great leader without attracting followers. We all know that leadership is the art of getting ...
Have You Shined Your Shoes Lately?
Generally, I am not a fan of origin stories. When a politician seeks to establish his "man of the people" credentials by telling us his father was a coal miner or his grandfather was a bricklayer, I ...