Leadership
Buffett Doesn’t Cut It: What Kept Him Off HBR’s Top CEO Ranking
When Harvard Business Review put together its 2015 list of chief executive elites—the world's best performing CEOs—Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett failed to make the cut. While Buffett ...
Surprise: Narcissists No More Likely To Be Risk Takers Than Others
Maybe narcissists aren't always such big risk-takers after all, a new study suggests. Many studies have found that narcissists often make volatile and risky decisions, possibly because they tend to ...
How to Embed a Culture of Innovation
It may have a reputation for conservatism, but the insurance industry is no stranger to innovation. If we look back through history, we see that insurance has driven innovation in crime prevention, ...
How Great Leaders Build Community
Building community within an organization encompasses many activities, but here are three basic practices of great leaders. They develop strong personal relationships. This means spending time with ...
Watch This Video: How Introverted People Can Become Leaders
You might not think introverted people could become leaders. But they most certainly can if they approach their job with a sense of urgency and passion, Patricia Henry, global government affairs ...
Insurance Execs Struggle to Kindle the Innovation Spark: KPMG Survey
While insurance executives overwhelmingly know that innovation will drive future competitive advantage and growth, most seem to be struggling to kindle the spark within their organization, finds a ...
Watch This Video: ‘Executive Presence’ Explained
What is executive presence? Some say that true leaders have it—a collection of qualities that prove someone should be in charge. The video to the right gives you some idea of how to measure it. In ...
Good to Great Leaders
When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wrote a New York Times Op-Ed titled "America Deserves a Servant Leader" in August, he described a leadership style that is growing in popularity among some of the ...