Leadership
Allied World’s Cultural Edge: Competing with Giants to Grow Specialty Business
When you're a smaller athlete competing with giants, sheer determination and sharp reflexes are tools you might use to glide past opponents—and a winning formula in business isn't too different, ...
The Role of Leaders Is Serving Employees: QBE NA CEO Johnston
If you were to ask the chief executive officer of QBE North America what success looks like, he might pull out some text messages with images of employees celebrating a recent change at the company. ...
Technology and the Workplace: Give Employees Plenty of Time to Learn, Practice
Here are two simple ways to train employees about the latest technological bells and whistles they'll need in the future: give them adequate time during work to learn and allow opportunities for them ...
Motivate Employees by Staying Positive, Cultivating Relationships
Leaders play a critical role in how motivated and energized their employees are on a daily basis, says a recent article from The Muse, an online career resource. While behaviors like nutrition, ...
Leaders Should Focus on High-Risk Decisions
Sometimes the smartest decision a leader can make is to delegate that decision to someone else, says a recent Kellogg Insight. But before choosing whether a decision can be delegated, the leader must ...
Put Down Your Smartphone: A Customer-Focused Culture Begins in the Executive Suite
Business leaders marvel at the distinctive, customer-focused cultures associated with legendary firms like Southwest Airlines, Apple and Disney. As executives of these companies readily acknowledge, ...
Carrier Management’s Leadership, Director Education Course Directory Available
Whether they're interested in sharpening their own leadership skills or building the next generation of leaders, property/casualty insurance company executives and directors have limited time to seek ...
6 Crisis Leadership Tips From Rudy Giuliani, ‘America’s Mayor’
No one anticipated the nature and scale of the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, but the immediate response nonetheless drew upon months and years of careful planning and ...