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Employees Want Companies With Strong Culture, Values, Leadership
Culture is top of mind when workers weigh up which "unicorn business" they want to work for.
That's according to the results of a recent ...
Is It Time to Sell the Building?
Even though representatives of Lloyd's of London prepared the world for the news last year, last month's headlines prompted some stunned reactions. One of those headlines—"Lloyd's Weighs Future of ...
CEO Perspective: Giving 100 Percent to Build, Sustain Culture
You don't hear many kids say, "When I grow up, I want to work in insurance." Admittedly, even I didn't think insurance was very "cool" at a young age. How can the insurance industry stack up against ...
Moving Past ‘Boring’: How P/C Carriers Can Foster a Silicon Valley-Inspired Culture
Experienced leaders will tell you that their most important asset is their people. "Good to Great" author Jim Collins said, "Great vision without great people is irrelevant." The question then ...
‘Trust Falls’ Don’t Work: Understanding the Real Building Blocks of Corporate Culture
A common myth around corporate and HR circles is that team building activities and similar approaches like "trust falls" and other artificial (and often meaningless) contests pitting co-workers ...
Eight Steps to Creating a Loyalist Team
Teams work or they fail to work. And often, the people on them can't give specific reasons for either outcome. When teams fail, they often dissolve into cliques riddled with blame or confusion. You ...
CEOs: Do Your Job
I read with interest United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz's mea culpa—an open letter to the public—regarding the passenger being injured and dragged off a plane in April. It was splendid prose. Don't ...
Managing Culture: How to Connect Far-Flung and Remote Workers
Imagine you're on the receiving end of an email from the CEO with the subject line "Agenda for Today's All-Hands Call." Surprise! Surprise that it came direct from the CEO—and surprise that the ...