Description: The author explores challenges that actuaries face at work, and the typical response continuum, which includes panic, inertia, striving, coping, and mastery.

Description: We can learn a lot about actuarial exams but they don't really teach us about the business world and how to operate in it.

Description: The author discusses the importance of setting goals and provides an update on achievements of the Management and Personal Development Section.

Description: A discussion of how compassion and empathy, help us to move from "managing things" to "leading people". Also will ponder how we develop genuine compassion.

Description: Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, devised a method to achieve "moral perfection." The author explains the method.

Description: How is actuarial career development related to human development? The author draws a parallel using the archetypes developed by Swiss psychiatrist Carl G Jung.

Description: Continuation of a series of articles adapted from the book "Awake at Work" by Michael Carroll, covering the application of Buddhist teachings to situations encountered in a modern corporate workplace setting. This series addresses challenges frequently encountered by practicing actuaries.

Description: A business leader and researcher describe the importance of effective leaders revealing their failures as well as successes.

Description: This 2016 Annual Meeting session explores how leaders are evolving, how newer generations want to be engaged, and how to succeed in this new environment.

Description: Discusses the processes of setting effective objective and development plans