Description: A review of the book, "How to be a Finance Rock Star--The Small Business Owner's Ticket to Platinum Profits" by actuary Nicole Fende.

Description: To be an outstanding leader, you must become a masterful communicator. Learn a number of simple yet critical steps to achieving that.

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 a recently departed employee should be offered the chance to return, and whether he should consider it.

Description: The reviewer believes the actuary reading this book gets a modern, small company exposure to running a company and doing your work. 'It provides an insight into how the new generation of entrepreneurs are building their businesses and how we can successfully operate in them. We can use this book to gain new ideas about how to govern ourselves and run our teams to be successful and attractive in this new future.'

Description: The 2011 Annual Business Book Review authors and titles are listed. Members are asked to capture any management or personal development issues they find informative and interesting and worth sharing with other actuaries. From The Stepping Stone, February 2012, Issue No. 45.

Description: Article focusing on points to consider to improve hiring.

Description: Leadership starts with the little things.

Description: The author presents his firm's approach enabling their actuaries to communicate more broadly.