Description: Leadership is a change in focus from trying to stand out as great to fading into the background and serving others. Don't seek being a Cult of Personality, rather seek to develop a Culture of Personality - built on relationships and empowering people.

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: Tired of Strategic Planning? by Eric D. Beinhocker and Sarah Kaplan

Description: Discusses developing an investment strategy for new products, inconsistencies between pricing and financial-reporting models, and total return on the investment portfolio versus total return to the company. These topics are addressed from the perspectives of [1] a corporate actuarial department head, [2] a consultant to life companies in these areas, and [3] a preeminent risk-management actuary. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: The December 2013/January 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: This article examines the trends facing the life and health insurance industry which consulting actuaries will need to address such as downsizing, outsourcing, technology and the need to be flexible.

Description: Digests of following discussions: 1. Mutual life insurance companies - their objectives and operating philosophy 2. State, provincial, and municipal employee pension plans - financing and other problems 3. Mortality and underwriting of individual policies for large amounts 4. Investing during the 1970's 5. Long-range viability and regulation of corporate pension plans 6. Forecasting the environment for business 7. Liabilities and surplus in the 1970's 8. Changing modes of family life - work and income over the life cycle 9. The role of the actuary in collective bargaining 10. Health insurance in the United States 11. Adjusted earnings

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: In Search of Relevance by Dave Duncan from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, July 2004, Issue No. 15.

Description: The October/November 2015 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.