Articles by Scott Simmonds

A slender boy of 14 moves slowly across the room. His full head of long red hair bounces as he walks. His mind is racing. He sits at the oak table near the window of the vast room. On the …

The To Do List on Steroids To do or not to do, that is, quite literally, the question. Few of us have the memory to keep everything in our heads. The To Do list is a time proven key to …

To do or not to do, that is, quite literally, the question. Few of us have the memory to keep everything in our heads. The To Do list is a time proven key to success. My approach involves four lists …

Ubiquitous, effective, efficient, simple, annoying, maddening, perturbing, frustrating, and indispensable. All are adjectives that can describe e-mail. Most of us have a love / hate relationship with our email. Like a hammer, e-mail can be used to build or to …

Insurance professionals suffer from a particularly virulent form of time poverty. We are terrible at managing our time. We don’t set priorities well. We react to immediate issues that may not be very important. We waste time on the “thick …

Insurance professionals suffer from a particularly virulent form of time poverty. We are terrible at managing our time. We don’t set priorities well. We react to immediate issues that may not be very important. We waste time on the “thick …

Why Market Blocking Is Not Best for the Consumer or the Industry The insurance business needs to lose a vestige of the insurance marketplace of the last century. Let’s become more friendly to competition and the free market. For my …