Description: The author uses baseball as a comparison to the corporate world. The author notes it is about taking skills, talents and knowledge and doing the best you can 100% of the time and that is the tie breaking difference in baseball and business.

Description: This article is about how to develop vision statements, both corporate and individual.

Description: Steps toward learning how to do the things you think you cannot do by doing one thing you think you cannot do, you might be able to also accomplish others that you dream about.

Description: This column highlights the recent activities of the Society of Actuaries and lists professional development opportunities.

Description: his article contains a summary of some of the presentations given at the 2015 SOA Annual Meeting & Exhibit, held October 11–14, in Austin.

Description: An article that explains the importance of lifelong learning--education shouldn't stop once you've attained your FSA.

Description: an excerpt from a speech discussing how experts can become so immersed in their work that they cannot see how their profession relates to and affects society. This is excerpted, with permission, from Mr. Anderson’s speech, “Strategic Planning for Corporate Growth,” to the Chemical Marketing Research Assn.

Description: A brief overview of the development of the Critical Illness product in Canada.

Description: The author discusses how small firms can compete successfully against big firms by cre¬ating a micro-niche business, because other firms—including big firms—cannot compete directly. In this way a small firm can compete against large firms with great success by stepping outside direct competi¬tion, in which it cannot hope to win. From ‘The Stepping Stone’ issue number 43.

Description: Despite a clear need and demographics which should be favorable to LTCI growth, the market remains stalled due to lack of understanding on the consumer side, and uncertainty on carriers' side. The 3 key risk areas for carriers are morbidity, terminations, and investment earnings. Financial market innovations which can address these include: repackaging risks as derivative securities, interest rate swaps and options, and inflation swaps.