This article originally published at InsNerds.com It seems like only yesterday I was walking up to the next drill station at summer basketball camp. I can still hear the former head scout of the Boston Celtics leading off this drill: “Over this week you’ll hear a lot of smart people telling you things like … Read more
Insurance, as an industry has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the United States, currently hovering around 2%. This is compared to a national average of roughly 4%. Average insurance employees work about 38 hours a week, and make about $34.00 an hour. A quick back of the envelope calculation (38 hours x 52 … Read more
Some books are so good, you must read them. Others are so important, you must study them! This is one you should study. Blue Ocean Strategy is an important book for anyone seeking a strategy that can help them in their career and in business. For generations, business schools have taught some form of strategy for business … Read more
We’ve had a couple of articles on negotiation recently where we have discussed the importance of becoming a good negotiator, some basic strategies and some intermediate ones. Negotiating can be uncomfortable, and you might want to avoid it as much as you can, but there are a few times in your career where negotiating well … Read more
Today, we dig a little deeper into negotiations. In case you missed it, make sure you check out last week’s article “Negotiating Like a Trained Expert the Easy and Effective Way.” Life is (almost) never a zero sum game A zero sum game is one where one side must lose for the other one to … Read more