Description: Malpractice Claims: What You Can Do To Protect Yourself by David R. Godofsky from Smaller Consulting Firm Section, January 2003, Issue No. 1.

Description: This presentation is a general session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The speaker comments that actuaries are well suited for strategic thinking by what they do, noting that “clearly strategy is very heavily involved in trying to understand the external environment and trying to forecast the future in some fashion.” The speaker also sees that “three fundamental factors that will have to be built into everything that we do. These three factors are internationalization or globalization, an understanding of quality, and an understanding of human resource management.” From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: IFRS 17 is a significant change that requires insurers to invest time and resources. The presenters will address wider implications of the new standard, and a senior leaders' panel will cover a number of perspectives. They will address the latest developments of the standard and interpretations, emerging technology that is accelerating implementation, insights from implementing IFRS 17 in Canada and globally, reinsurance considerations and opportunities for the actuarial profession.

Description: Book Review: Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution, Michael Hammer and James Champy. 'The central thesis is that American corporations must radically redesign their work to survive in the 1990s.' A primer on how to reengineer is the latter half of the book. 'This is an interesting and provocative book...which leaves one wondering whether reengineering is the latest idea destined for the management theory junkyard.'

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers the challenges faced by senior executives in managing all of the various groups including policyholders, shareholders, rating agencies, regulators, agents and employees of an insurance organization. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This article is about how times are changing and we must adapt and keep up as individuals, professionals, and companies

Description: Notes on the IAA meeting that took place in D.C. in May

Description: This article is about change, how it affects us, how we react to change, and how leaders need to be change agents.

Description: This is a discussion about recruiting professional people, and what can be done to reduce the high rate of turnover among professionals, especially during the first few years of employment. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21 Pt. 2, No 59.

Description: The Complete Actuary: Actuaries Do Manage by William C. Cutlip from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, January 2001, Issue No. 5.