M&A in Insurance: Rise above the Failing Majority
“Greed is Good” The senior managers and executives I’ve met who aspire to be involved in an M&A deal at some point in their careers have...
10 Ways to Transform your Insurance HR Function Forever
“Without doubt, the head of HR should be the second most important person in any organization.” Jack Welch, Winning. The Status Quo: 2nd...
Regulatory Dealings in Insurance: Meet your new Best Friends
The Leadership Mindset It strikes me as odd that in a highly-regulated industry like ours executives seem to often forget the importance...
Taming the IT Beast in Insurance
Each of us must at least have a couple of horror stories to recount about an IT project gone wrong due to: > Adapting an off-the-shelf...
Insurance Internal Meetings . . . Simplified
“A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.” Unknown source. I lead the Effective Meetings: Don’t Waste...
Leadership in Insurance
Leader or Manager? Let me kick-start the discussion by stressing that every organization needs both the manager and leader types to grow...
Insurance Budgeting: STOP Wasting & START Dreaming
“... the budgeting process at most companies has to be the most inefficient practice in management. It sucks the energy, time, fun, and...
Insurance Finance & Investments: Cash is still King!
Cash is still KING! “You will soon find out that your biggest problem is.…What to do with all the fucking cash.” This is a line from the...
Insurance Entertaining in a Global Economy
The Basics Entertaining should be an integral part of any insurance professional’s job across functions, especially for those in...
Insurance Underwriting: War and Inefficiency
The Ongoing Insurance Underwriting War A war continues to rage on between two wildly different views on how to approach underwriting: Art...
