Leading with Love: The Key to Business Success and Emotional Fulfillment
Love might not be the first word that comes to mind when you think of effective leadership, but perhaps it should be. It’s a force that binds teams, drives performance, and fills our professional journey with joy and purpose. To me, love isn’t just a part of leadership; it is the very essence of it.
Unleashing the Full Potential of Salesforce in the Insurance Space
Many insurance companies who’ve implemented Salesforce are leaving value on the table. If you’re an insurance company already leveraging Salesforce or considering doing so, there’s no doubt you’re aware of the game-changing capabilities the platform offers, especially in the financial services arena.
The Rise of Agency Creation: A Prudent Alternative for Insurance and Private Equity Capital Deployment
In a world characterized by ever-changing risk dynamics, especially in the property and liability markets, insurance carriers and private equity firms find themselves at the crossroads. The challenge of determining where to invest capital without taking on significant underwriting risk is real and daunting.
The Critical Need for Insurance Companies to Re-evaluate Their Software Stack for Cost Optimization
In the wave of tech modernization, several industries hopped on the bandwagon to remain competitive and to deliver better services. Among them, the insurance sector was no exception.
Five Tenets of Building a Strong Team Culture
By focusing on an environment that emphasizes love, communication, talent, service orientation, and discipline, leaders will be paving a solid foundation for organizational success. With these key components in place, any team or organization can be well on its way to cultural greatness.
Where to focus? Try the “Hedgehog Principle”.
Whether you find yourself among the scores of tech workers thinking through your transition, or you’re an executive making difficult choices about your operations, The Hedgehog Principle represent a simple, yet insightful filter to help you make better decisions around where to focus your most valuable resource: time.
As you climb the ladder, who’s gonna call you out?
With fewer people around us, who do we turn to for a candid assessment of our work? ike many leaders in most organizations at this time of year, you probably find yourself in the midst of year-end performance reviews. But as an ascending leader, you may find yourself without the benefit of honest feedback – few are bold enough to give criticism at this critical time in your career.
A leadership lesson from my 18 year-old son…
I’m the proud father of four sons. Miles is my oldest still in the house, a senior who outperforms academically, while also serving as the captain of the high school wrestling team at 160 lbs.
He has a certain quiet confidence about him. His presence is generally calm, yet attentive – taking in his surroundings and being thoughtful when it comes to how he manages circumstances around him.
Book Review: “The No Asshole Rule”
In “The No Asshole Rule,” author Robert I. Sutton tackles the often overlooked but significant issue of incivility in the workplace. Sutton, a professor of management science at Stanford University, defines an “asshole” as someone who is rude, disrespectful, or aggressive towards others. These individuals can have a detrimental effect on a workplace, creating a toxic culture that can demoralize and demotivate employees.
Does your organization or team need rewiring?
The first time I found myself thinking about the actual physiology of the brain as it relates to leadership was the seminal TED Talk by Simon Sinek, The Golden Circles. In a passing comment, Sinek points out that the brain is organized in a very specific way which impacts the way we process information vs. emotion.
