Leadership
New Consumer Tech Drives Opportunities for Novel Personal Insurance Products: Conning
Innovation often opens the door to new products that would never have been possible. Conning asserts in a new report that this is happening with personal lines insurance, thanks to consumers' ...
Inside Carrier Management’s 2Q Magazine: The Rise of AI and EI in Insurance
As part of its "Watson at Work" campaign, IBM in early April released a series of videos showing cognitive systems helping people do their jobs. One video shows Watson, IBM's cognitive computing ...
Why Volatile Leaders End Up Paralyzed; How to Become a ROCK Instead
Leaders cannot orchestrate in a vacuum. In fact, they depend on others in at least three important ways: Leaders guide; they do not execute. Therefore, they rely on others to take care of ...
What Can the Battlefield Teach Us About Leadership?
As we celebrate the Memorial Day and Independence Day holidays, it is appropriate to reflect on the qualities necessary to be a good leader. The legacies of some of America's renowned generals appear ...
Zurich’s North America Commercial Insurance Arm Revamped to Include Specialty Products
Zurich North America's streamlining continues with another new change. The insurer's Specialty Products business is being brought together with its North America Commercial Insurance arm. Zurich, in ...
7 Traits of Highly Successful People
Being successful is all about how badly you want it and how much you're willing to work for it. It takes purpose, creativity, determination and a lot of hard work. In a new blog post, Sonia McDonald, ...
How to Keep Your Conversations on Track and Productive
Keeping business conversations on track and productive can be difficult, especially when we view our conversational partners as opponents. We end up wasting our time and effort while producing ...
Carrier CEO Viewpoint: Seeing Through Customers’ Eyes Gives Leadership Vision
"Customers have pretty high expectations of us,” says Richard P. Creedon, president and CEO of Utica Mutual Insurance Co. of New Hartford, N.Y. As the company’s freshman leader—he completed his ...