Description: This session from the 2001 SOA Spring Meeting explains how it is critical to become aware that you are in the middle of a race for obtaining, engaging and retaining top talent. Achieving a high ROI on human assets is central to your personal success and to the success of your company. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 33pd.

Description: Latest in a series applying Buddhist philosophy to the working world of the actuary. The focus is on the author's experience in yoga teacher training.

Description: Pat Renzi shared her career trajectory and lessons learned in life and work.

Description: This article presents lost career opportunity examples from lack of communication skills and a list of resources to help you work on building and improving your own skills.

Description: Update of IFRS Developments

Description: The true value of any leader is measured by how much they are able to accomplish through the work of their team. Actuaries in leadership roles are no different. But, to get the most out of your teams, leaders must first focus on building a high-performance culture. One that rewards measurable success and challenges everyone to reach farther all the time. There is no easy path to building a high-performance culture, but the benefits of a leader’s efforts will pay substantial dividends for the team, the leader, and the company. This series of articles is intended to educate leaders of large and small groups on how to build a high-performance culture and achieve outstanding results.

Description: This articles showcases the principles of effective servant leadership.

Description: Networking Naturally by Robert M. Musen from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, April 2004, Issue No. 14.

Description: Feature article discussing the importance of business connections when trying to get a board position.

Description: This article is a review of the book by Joshua Foer. It covers the history of memory techniques, the way a human brain organizes memory, and various problems and successes in memory recall. The author starts by interviewing memory savants, and learns from them that the ability to perform seemingly impossible memory tricks is simply a matter of studying and practicing proven techniques used for millennia. This review suggests that actuaries can benefit greatly from some of these techniques despite the availability of electronic hand-held devices to recall facts because the person who does not need to rely upon such devices can have a huge perceptual advantage in executive presentations.