Leadership & Strategy
Your Greatest Competitive Advantage Isn’t Technology—It’s Leaders
The insurance industry has never lacked for complexity. Markets harden and soften. Catastrophes reshape risk models overnight. Regulatory demands evolve. Technology races ahead. Artificial ...
Mapfre to Acquire Safety Insurance in $1.5B in Cash Deal
Safety Insurance Group Inc,, a property/casualty insurer in Massachusetts and New England, has agreed to be acquired by Spain's Mapfre S.A. in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.54 ...
The $400,000 Chief of Staff Is the CEO’s Secret Weapon in the AI Age
A growing number of corporate leaders, buckling under the stress and uncertainty of the AI age, are looking for a very human solution: A chief of staff. Postings for the job more than doubled last ...
Why Consistency Beats Creativity in Insurance Marketing
Have you ever walked into an insurance conference and realized you already know who half the exhibitors are? Not because you've done business with them or met their team, but because you've seen ...
Reframing Like a Fox: How Insurance Leaders Can Catch Strategic Drift Before It Compounds
We had little time to perform a strategic review of our client's innovation lab. The analysis was part of a broader enterprise strategy program, and I needed to work with the lab's leadership team to ...
How to Reframe It Like a Fox
The pattern of adopting incremental changes that steer a business from its original strategy is clear in hindsight. But as anyone who has run a business understands, it's difficult to establish this ...
Farmers Making It Easier for Consumers to Understand Insurance
Farmers Insurance has launched a new initiative designed to make insurance easier to understand and more transparent for consumers. Farmers said the enterprise-wide effort reflects its continuing ...
Four Insurers Join Ward’s Annual Top 50 P/C Ranking for 2026
Property/casualty insurers have started to broadcast the fact that they earned spots on Ward's list of 50 top-performing insurance companies for 2026, but only one was named for 36 straight ...