Description: Book Review of Management And Machiavelli by Antony Jay, in which the premise is that the study of history can do more for managers than the study of management science.

Description: Reengineering has become a corporate buzzword of the 1990s. This article addresses why companies decide to reengineer and explores the risks, as well as the benefits.

Description: Six dimensional leaders are insightful, flexible and connected. They listen, motivate and inspire. Is this you? This article explores the six dimensions that a leader must operate in to become transformational leaders.

Description: This is a book review of 'Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices' by Peter F. Drucker, considered by some to be the high priest of management. The book is divided into three parts- The Tasks, The Manager and Top Management. The last named contains much food for thought, not just for top management but for the underlayer as well. The first two parts reveal Drucker’s knowledge of and insight into what is good management and what is not. Repeatedly, he makes his point by citing real cases and describing real companies. His occasional comments on the life insurance industry are pointed. The book is also noteworthy for giving us another law to stand alongside those of Parkinson, Murphy and Peter- Drucker’s Law: 'If one thing goes wrong, everything else will, and at the same time.'

Description: As the pace of consolidation accelerates and competition increases, profitability pressures are intensifying. Life insurers must continually search for new ideas and techniques to gain marketplace advantage. An issue facing insurance organizations is who should develop and perform the customer profitability analysis. Perhaps the best people to address this issue are the actuaries. This article discusses four major issues actuaries must consider in defining an appropriate customer profitability metric.

Description: Peter G. Moore, Reason By Numbers. Peter Moore looks at the ways of gathering, presenting and interpreting information and explains the essential arithmetic of resource allocation, planning and decision theory.

Description: This is a summary of the book In Search of Excellence - Lessons from America's Best Run Companies. and how insurance companies and actuaries do not achieve escellence. The author outlines three out of eight qualities that these best run companies had in common.

Description: Two hundred eighty-one actuaries signed up by Sept. 1, 1998 for the Society of Actuaries’ Management and Personal Development Section. This article describes the activities of this newest SOA Section.

Description: This article provides a recap of Colin Powell's speech at the SOA's Annual Meeting in 1994, entitled 'The Management of Crisis and Change'.

Description: Column discussing the SOA’s addition of the Decision Making and Communication Module to its exam process.