culture Archives - Carrier Management

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 ...

A Conversation on Innovation and the Industry’s Future With ACORD’s Hartnett

There are not many insurance executives who will quote inventor Thomas Edison, Microsoft's Steve Baumer, futurist Alvin Toffler, Moore's Law, and philosophers Aristotle and Plato. There are also not ...

Relationships, Culture Are Keys to Job Satisfaction: Survey

In advance of the Valentine's Day holiday last week, executive search firm Korn Ferry surveyed 350 executives in various industries asking what makes them "love" their jobs. Topping the list was ...

XL’s Seraina Maag: Building a Culture of Collaboration

"Work-Outs" and "Rapid Results Initiatives" are now a natural part of the language of the U.S. insurance professionals working for XL Group, where a culture of collaboration has taken hold over the ...

Are You A Magnet For Talent?

There's a talent crisis looming. Your best assets walk out the door every night, and you need leaders to help steer and guide the company through these unprecedented times. Unless you've been asleep ...