Leadership
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 ...
Innovation in Risk Modeling: How to Build a Plane While Flying It
When my partner, Vivek Basrur, and I started Karen Clark & Co. (KCC), we had no intention of building catastrophe models again. In fact, that's the one thing we said we wouldn't do. But after a ...
Don’t Confuse Performance With Potential: Aon Hewitt
Don't waste time and money grooming the wrong individuals for future leadership roles. Developing a formal strategy to identify high-potential employees can help ensure that you're nurturing the ...
New AIG CEO Brian Duperreault: ‘I Didn’t Come Here to Break the Company Up’
New American International Group President and CEO Brian Duperreault began his first full day on the job publicly repudiating the idea of splitting the struggling insurer into pieces and simply ...