What the Heroics Tax Is Costing Your Agency
The heroics tax is the compounding cost an organization pays when it relies on individual effort to compensate for broken or absent systems. Here’s how to stop paying it.
The heroics tax is the compounding cost an organization pays when it relies on individual effort to compensate for broken or absent systems. Here’s how to stop paying it.
Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to isolated tasks makes it difficult to scale into meaningful growth. Here are three ways to take a more disciplined approach.
John “Jack” C. Roche retires after a distinguished 40-year career in the insurance industry.
The gap between agency size and operational maturity is often where owners get stuck.
For agencies navigating growth, modernization, acquisitions, staffing changes or evolving client expectations, one of the most important shifts is for leadership to look beyond outcomes and to become more curious about the systems that create them.
Whether out of fear or the false belief that there’s always more time, most agency owners make the same three mistakes in succession planning.
April delivered must-read insights for independent agents, including the retirement of the Safeco brand, hurricane season outlook and member recognition at the 2026 Big “I” Legislative Conference.
“Once I realized the magnitude of the opportunity I had to carry on the legacy, to carry on that opportunity of helping generations of families and businesses, it became more than just a job for me,” says Robert Strachan.
On this episode of Agency Nation Radio, we meet Scott Gray, owner of SouthGroup Insurance Services in Meridian, Mississippi.
Language breakdowns among independent agents tend to occur when there is inconsistency in how language is applied internally and externally.