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Insurance Executive Search: Navigating the Landscape of Risk and Reward

N2Growth Blog

Strong strategic leadership skills, including the ability to inspire and motivate teams, are also crucial in navigating the complexities of the insurance sector. This includes understanding market trends, anticipating risks, and crafting effective risk management strategies.

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How to Be Generous in Business

Nathan Magnuson

It can seem like a conflict of interest. Obviously marketing campaigns and revenue targets matter. One of my favorite organizations, Chick-fil-A, places a high value on organizational leadership as well as chicken sandwiches. Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader. Make Money.

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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead.

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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead.

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The “Maximize Profits” Trap in Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

This logic and the institutions that reinforce it, like competitive markets and the rule of law, have transformed the world and lifted billions of people from poverty. In addition, 30 states have passed laws that explicitly authorize companies to consider the interests of parties other than shareholders.

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At Olympus and Goldman Sachs, Two Very Different Whistleblowers

Harvard Business Review

For example, the SEC in 2010 had charged Goldman with misleading some of the parties to a billion dollar transaction (involving a complex derivative called a synthetic collateralized debt obligation), alleging specific facts about undisclosed conflicts of interest. Goldman settled within months for $550 million.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

In their marketing, accounting and auditing firms claim to be full-service business advisors, in order to get business. There was a conflict of interest in alliance with Enron…not objective enough. Overt marketing hype led to an unwatchful marketplace…which always wakes up to the realities of business eventually.