Management

THE ESOP AS A VEHICLE FOR SELLING AN INTEREST IN AN INSURANCE AGENCY by Francis Willmarth In the early 1960s, Mortimer Adler and Louis Kelso published the Capitalist Manifesto, a...

THE EXIT INTERVIEW: AN INVALUABLE INVESTMENT by Tom Baker How you end the e...

THE FACTS OF LIFE ABOUT PERSONAL LINES - AND HAVING A WELL-TRAINED STAFF by E. Al Diamond Now more than ever, the generation of Personal Lines as a viable part of your agency will be depen...

THE FIVE WAYS AGENTS GET FIRED! by Rob Ekern Independent agencies and brokerages are facing a growing threat to their middle market Commercial clients. These firms are being squeezed from...

THE FOUR FACES OF PROFITABILITY: PART I by Diane Herbert and Pamela Millard Even if you see a healthy profit when you look at the bottom line, you might want to consider your profitability...

THE FOUR FACES OF PROFITABILITY: PART II by Diane Herbert and Pamela Millard The first part of this article focused on two faces of agency profitability: Pretax profit and Cash Flow from ...

THE FOUR PILLARS OF AGENCY MANAGEMENT by Bill Schoeffler and Catherine Oak There's no single ideal way to set up and ad...

THE FUTURE OF COMMERCIAL LINES FOR THE INDEPENDENT AGENCY by Brian Burke If two issues of Burke Ink in the last two years can be devoted to the future of Personal Lines, then we ow...

What we say does matter. Unfortunately, most of us don't listen to the words that we use. They might seem harmless, but what messages are we sending to others about ourselves and how we perform our jobs? In this article, John Graham looks at some of the words and phrases that we all utter on occasion. Very often, we use these phrases as excuses about why something didn't get done.

THE GENERATION GAP AT WORK: HOW BOOMER OWNERS MUST DEAL WITH GEN X EMPLOYEES by Al Diamond To explain how the older 'boomer' generation must relate to its successor, 'Generati...