Leadership
Accomplish Important Tasks by Not Sweating the ‘Small Stuff’
The "small stuff" is keeping executives and employees alike from accomplishing their important tasks. Finding a way to overcome the little things will go a long way toward addressing bigger goals and ...
Famous CEOs Sink Performance: Research
It's cool when everybody knows your name, but if you're running a big company, fame can have a down side. A new theoretical paper by an Arizona State University professor looks at why CEOs who become ...
Finding Qualified Insurance Employees Remains a Challenge Even as Hiring Stabilizes
Fifty-eight percent of insurance companies plan to increase staff during the next 12 months, in part due to an expected increase in business and new markets, according to the Semi-Annual U.S. ...
Don’t Just Manage Your Team—Learn to Be a Leader
A title will take you only so far; to reach the highest levels of leadership, you need to build and leverage your influence throughout the organization, according to a 2018 webinar from Insurance ...
‘Hyper-Learning’ Could Be Good Tool to Rapidly Transform Your Company
Hyper-learning — the process of continuously learning and unlearning — is a way to help transform companies and other large organizations trying to adapt in the Digital Age, a University of ...
Executives: Treat Employees Just Like Your Primary Customers
Executives: Treat your employees just like primary customers and good things will happen. This leadership tip comes from S. Chris Edmonds, an executive consultant, speaker and author who wrote a ...
6 Qualities of a Strong Insurance Leader
Sometimes leadership sneaks up on us. It starts out with our volunteering on a committee or speaking up at a meeting. Someone may nudge us at first, giving us encouragement. Or perhaps we raise our ...
Allianz-Owned Microinsurer BIMA: Closing the Protection Gap in Developing Nations
The insurance protection gap in developing nations is being filled by a growing group of microinsurers, which provide coverage that ranges from life and health insurance, to crop insurance, to ...