Leadership
Most Insurance Execs Eligible for AARP: A.M. Best Survey
According to a survey of representatives of nearly 200 insurers conducted by analysts at rating agency A.M. Best, nearly three-quarters of people on carrier management teams are age 50 or older—a ...
Carrier Management’s Top 10 Features of 2015
In 2015, Carrier Management readers learned more about market trends, how to run their companies better and the tools they need to be better leaders. There were other features that also drew their ...
What It’s Like to Work for Warren Buffett
Only about a dozen chief executives in the insurance industry can answer the question suggested by our headline. For the rest of us who can only imagine it, a recent analysis by two researchers ...
Business Comes Before Family for One-Third of Workers; CEOs Can Change the Stats: Deloitte Study
A new survey of more than 1,000 full time workers finds that even though nearly half say their organizations value their life outside for work, nearly one-third of the employees put their work ...
What Linus Teaches About Innovation
I have been bonked all afternoon. It's that time of year. Brooklyn's stoops, plumped by great pumpkins, are bright with autumn leaves. Sweeping up means braving the barrage of falling kernels, ...
Take-Charge Behavior Can Boost Standing of Women Leaders When It’s Team-Focused
Considerable research suggests that when women act assertively and self-promote in the workplace, they are commonly penalized by others. But does that perception change when a woman stands up for ...
How Great Leaders Lead
As we build on the principles presented in this series on servant leadership, we get to a core idea that raises an obvious question. The core principle: Servant leaders provide leadership. The ...
The C-Level Actuary
Actuaries have always been involved in the management of risk, and more and more we are seeing actuaries take on roles that may be considered outside of the realm of "traditional" actuarial work, ...