Description: Article about workplace etiquette and the behaviors that irritate or impress co-workers or superiors.

Description: Managing in the 21st century.

Description: The author identifies various career limiting moves, such as arrogance or insensitivity, that we may not even be aware we are doing. He encourages identifying these bad habits and correcting them.

Description: THE MANAGEMENT & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT (M&PD) SECTION COUNCIL is reaching out to all section members to share their insights via written reviews of interesting business books for our third annual Business Book Review Contest.

Description: How you can use your motivation and persistence to become an optimist.

Description: How to offer constructive criticism and use it as a tool to improve work processes, nurture business relationships and get the outcomes you want.

Description: In this article, I provide a high-level overview of 5 of my favorite things that I learned while working in an actuarial department for a little over 4 years.

Description: The flurry of accounts of three-generation actuarial families having waned pro tem, perhaps I may spark new genealogical interest by reporting the actuarial spanning of four generations. Charlton T. Lewis 1834-1904, my mother's grandfather, became a Fellow of the Actuarial Society of America in October 1889, six months after its formation.

Description: This article is a letter to the SOA’s Director of Education, recounts the writer’s recent experience with the Society’s Speaker Kit, and her address to a school class at a junior high Career Day, noting the youthful audience's attention seemed to fade when talking about ‘insurance in general, the work and the exams,’ but when the talk turned to numbers, the audience became interested and assisted in calculating insurance premiums.

Description: This is an article about the education provided for actuaries highlighting a paper presented to the Institute in London in January 1982 by W. W. Truckle, F.I.A., Director of that body's Actuarial Tuition Service. Written to provide a framework for oral and written discussion, it features questions rather than opinions.