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Applying David Kantor’s Heroic Modes to Leadership in Insurance

Executive Summary David Kantor’s Heroic Modes model offers a compelling lens to understand leadership behaviors and decision-making styles across...

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The Crucial Role of Value System Choices In Optimizing Insurance ProductStrategy

Executive Summary In strategic planning, insurance professionals typically focus on three primary Where-to-Play (WTP) dimensions: geography, customer...

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Rethinking ERM: Strategic Best Practices for Insurers

Executive Summary Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) frameworks have long been considered essential for aligning risk oversight with organizational...

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Why Strategic Plans Often Fail in Insurance and How to Build Plans That Deliver Results

Executive Summary Strategic planning remains a cornerstone activity for insurance organizations seeking to navigate an increasingly complex market...

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Elevating Insurance Strategy: Lessons from a Sommelier's Approach

Executive Summary In insurance, where data analytics and customer expectations continuously shift, the ability to discern subtle strategic...

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Clarifying Vision, Strategy, Objectives, and Roadmaps: Essential Frameworks for Insurance Leaders

If your competitors can easily copy your strategy, it’s not strategy. It’s tactics. Executive Summary Business leaders often conflate vision,...

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Why Managing General Agencies MUST Take Ownership of Communication Strategies

Managing General Agencies (MGAs) play a pivotal role in the insurance industry, which has only ramped up in the last few years and shows no signs of...

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A Framework For Transforming Insurance Culture

Organizational culture transformation ranks among the most formidable challenges leaders face, yet it's essential for sustained competitive...

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Are Insurance Leaders More Technocratic or More Strategist?

While the insurance sector has long prided itself on stability, analytical rigor, and process excellence, these very strengths might be limiting our...

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Transforming Novice Strategists: Essential Shifts in Strategic Thinking

Roger Martin, one of the lead academics in strategy recently wrote an article in Medium about how to train and develop strategists. I think this is a...

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