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The More Things Change
In the third-quarter edition of Carrier Management magazine, we devote a lot of pages to future trends. It's a timely focus as people increasingly talk about a future of roads filled with cars that ...
Autonomous Vehicles: Major Disrupter Presents Challenges and Opportunities
Since the early 1960s, the insurance industry has been a major force behind the most significant advances in highway and vehicle safety, including electronic stability control requirements, seat belt ...
‘Event’ Needed to Boost International Insurance Pricing: QBE Group CEO
When Australia's QBE Insurance Group reported a 24 percent leap in first-half earnings last week, the leader of the company signaled the ability of the company to weather both natural catastrophes ...
P/C Insurers Blocking Their Own Roads to Innovation
Property/casualty insurers face a number of external obstacles on the road to delivering more innovative products and reimagining their operations, but the ones that really get in the way come from ...
Training Tomorrow’s Leaders: An External Perspective
Radostina Purvanova, associate professor of management and international business at Drake University, has a unique perspective on what it takes to be a successful leader in the current economy. ...
Tips to Start Your Own Leadership Program
1. Get leadership buy-in. You will need more than just financial support. Leaders should be prepared to participate in the creation, administration and operation of the program. 2. Understand the ...
Cultivating Leadership to Drive Business Results
Like many companies, we favor the concept of promoting from within for leadership positions. However, when we took a closer look at the makeup of our leadership team a few years ago, we realized we ...
Straight Talk from Industry CEOs at ACE and Travelers
Great leaders promote trust and open communication, experts increasingly argue. Property/casualty insurance executives understand this, especially in times of great change—a fact that was in ...