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Make Collaboration Easy: Mix Idea and IT Experts on Your Team

For executives hoping to promote cost-effective collaboration between different silos at their organization, here's a simple tip: Pair technology or organizational experts with others who excel at ...

Are Underwriters, Agents Endangered by AI?

"Meet your new underwriter." That's the caption under a photo of a robotic hand holding a pen that the digital news outlet Quartz (qz.com) used to introduce a recent article about an insurer using ...

Analysis vs. Gut Feel: Weighing the Pros and Cons

The pros-and-cons list is a popular decision-making tool, but is it really the best choice when you're trying to make a high-stakes decision? Executive Coach Chris Charyk ponders this question in a ...

AIG CEO Peter Hancock’s Innovation Sources: Nobel Prize Winners, Client Councils and More

Here's an innovation you may not have heard about in the insurance world: client councils. AIG President and CEO Peter Hancock said that his company forms and hosts client councils in order to ...

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 ...

CEOs Top Fear is Being Found to Be Incompetent, Study Finds

If you've ever worried that someone will find out you're an imposter who actually lacks the level of competence required for your position, then you're in good company. Roger Jones, the head of ...

How Topgrading Helped One Commercial Insurer Hire Nearly All ‘A’-Level Managers

Argo Group has nearly doubled its hiring of topnotch, "A"-level managers over the past five years, using a hiring protocol known as Topgrading—a rigorous process designed to eliminate much of the ...