Description: In his final chair corner, Kevin Leavey encourages fellow section members to get involved.

Description: Summary of workshops held by Management & Personal Development Section at SOA meetings which explored the little things that make a difference when managers are dealing with others from different levels in their organizations.

Description: A review of the book, You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader, by Mark Sanborn. Throughout the book, you may need to rethink your concept of what a leader is. In addition to the concepts provided, Sanborn also provides leadership action points at the end of each section.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study involved whether an actuary who had recently started consulting should consider a job offer to return to a corporate role.

Description: Mentoring: Is It All What It’s Cracked Up to Be? by Cindy Forbes from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, November 1999, Issue No. 2.

Description: A review of the book Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter.

Description: What it takes to lead teams is significantly different from what it takes to excel as an individual contributor. A leader's first mistakes is to think they have to do the same things they did before just with more volume and greater speed. Leading a team requires a transition to new behaviors and mindset. This article attempts to give you a few ideas to make the transition from leading yourself to leading others

Description: Gaining people management skills from Captain D. Michael Abrashoff's book, "Its Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy"

Description: Summary of the Key Note address at the 1982 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries by Dr. George H. Labovitz. Dr. Labovitz's topic was Participatory Management: a management style that involves personnel at all levels to influence direction and decisions.

Description: The editor discusses editorial board changes, welcomes new section council members, and mentions highlighted articles in this issue.