Description: This column lists articles and other forms of media The Actuary’s contributing editors feel will be of interest to their fellow actuaries.

Description: an excerpt from a speech discussing how experts can become so immersed in their work that they cannot see how their profession relates to and affects society. This is excerpted, with permission, from Mr. Anderson’s speech, “Strategic Planning for Corporate Growth,” to the Chemical Marketing Research Assn.

Description: This article is a review of Peter F. Drucker’s 1980 book ‘Managing in Turbulent Times.’ The reviewer notes that this is a troubling book ‘to anyone familiar with the unsettled outlook for our economic, political, and social environment,’ because of Mr. Drucker’s credibility as a management analyst, and because ‘the turbulent times that he identifies call for changes in management attitudes and practices that are difficult to make.’

Description: This column lists articles and other forms of media The Actuary’s contributing editors feel will be of interest to their fellow actuaries.

Description: Read an interview with SOA presidential candidate Barnet N. Berin, Managing Director and Chief Actuary for William M. Mercer, Inc. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 7

Description: Industry briefings and SOA news

Description: Description of the job of a stockbroker in Britain and what an actuary can bring to the trade.

Description: This article is about a tool called the Life Styles Inventory used to increase your personal and professional effectiveness. It can be used to initiate positive changes in how you think and act.

Description: This article names the keynote speaker for the 1995 Annual Meeting, who is George F. Will, a nationally renowned journalist.

Description: An article that offers a reinsurance professional's perspective on re-engineering which resulted in strengthened and improved service to their clients as well as net improvement to their bottom line.