What Can You Do If You’re Being Quietly Fired?

Your performance goals are either nonexistent or unreasonable. Your reviews are negative without a clear path for improvement. You're being denied opportunities for ...

Leadership Tips: Manage Your Managers to Avoid ‘Quiet Firing’

Some managers deal with disengaged employees head-on, discussing the problem, offering solutions and assistance, and detailing the consequences if the situation doesn't ...

‘Inside-Out’ Branding: How One P/C Insurer Made Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work List

There are a lot of experiences that Branch Insurance Co-Founder Steve Lekas took away from his 17 years working in the property/casualty insurance industry that shaped ...

You’ve Been Laid Off. Now What? Navigating InsurTech’s Workforce Transformation

Economic uncertainty, coupled with a period of transition in InsurTech, has led to a wave of layoffs for the industry. For InsurTech employees worried about potential ...

Assessing InsurTechs’ Greatest Value to the Industry: Talent

The biggest contribution of InsurTech to the insurance industry may well be talent—technology talent, insurance talent, just raw talent.

Branch Insurance Sprouts From Roots of Asking Why

"Ask Why. It's how we learn new skills, grow as a team, and invent. Without asking 'why?' we'd never get to the deeper understanding needed to create ...

Birth of a Unicorn: How Branch’s Founders Turned Noes Into Yeses

Like most startups, the founders of unicorn Branch faced some early setbacks.

In a word, the process was "intense," according to Steve ...

Workplace Flexibility Key in Capturing Competitive Edge

Ira Ziff recruited the perfect CFO for the job. The candidate checked all the boxes for a small-town insurer Ziff works with as president of Precision Research Group. The ...

How Carriers Can Meet Strategic Goals During Inflationary Times

At the dawn of the 2020s just over three years ago, no one, including property/casualty executives, thought a pandemic would sweep the globe. The disruptions caused by ...

CEO Reflections: Thoughts on Long-Term Leadership

I was initially hesitant when asked to share my thoughts on leadership.

A quick Google search will yield thousands of entries—books, ...