President & CEO • Lockton Pacific Series
Corporate philanthropy and social responsibility is win-win for companies on many levels as well as for the community at large. Of course, it improves your brand and it’s the right thing to do, which is why more companies today are ramping up their p…
Leading a rapidly growing company can present many unique challenges that can test the grit of management and their commitment to the company’s core values and culture. Inability to manage increased complexity, pressures on systems and processes, and r…
Offices are generally a melting pot of different types of personalities. There are the drama queens/kings, the gossips, the shrinking violets and the go-getters, just to name a few. If you learn to look carefully, however, you will most likely find at…
With subpar data costing U.S. companies 12 percent of annual revenues, hygiene has become critical to the bottom line. Data has been described as the very lifeblood of a company, but even that doesn’t completely describe it. Used to maximum effect, it e…
In a workforce that is comprised of a rapidly growing Millennial base (by 2020, they will make up the majority of workers, and they currently sit at 25% and growing , according to Forbes), it is no surprise that the generation who reshaped the ideology of…
Managers and leaders play a key role in the function and success of an organization. Bad management can be incredibly detrimental to the organization, both operationally and culturally, and unfortunately, every professional will face working with a bad…
It is easy, but dangerous, to maintain the status-quo in business. Though it takes less work to continue doing business as usual, you’re at risk of losing out on market opportunities and being swallowed up by the competition. Today’s digital age dem…
For years the focus of hiring was on individuals that possessed strong technical skills and expertise in their respective fields. Now, interpersonal skills are leading the way into the future: the priority recently is to screen job candidates for soft…