Description: This article is about actuaries developing skills for corporate management. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 2

Description: An article that talks about how companies have adopted a new customer focus - a change from product focus to market focus.

Description: With the convergence and consolidation of the financial services industry, the advent of new technologies and the Internet, and increased focus on the customer, actuaries are facing a brand new set of challenges. This editorial prefaces the articles in this issue that point out some key challenges and opportunities facing today’s actuaries.

Description: In this article, the author recommends the book, 'Stop Managing, Start Coaching!' by Jerry W. Gilley and Nathaniel W. Boughton, to managers who believes in the potential of human capital and are willing to make some investment. The book emphasizes the importance of using coaching to achieve 'buy-in' from employees on managerial decisions. In this process, manager and employee develop a collegial relationship, which ultimately increases the self-esteem of the employee and his or her commitment to the job and the organization.

Description: This article is about a 1997 conference titled, 'Integrated Approaches to Risk Measurement in the Financial Services Industry,' that brought together a diverse group of 84 professionals, including actuaries and others working in risk measurement and management. That conference, sponsored jointly by the SOA’s finance practice area and Investment Section, was important in helping the profession advance the work of risk measurement.

Description: Article from The Actuary April 1993 – Volume 27, No. 4 is about leadership and management skills

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 article is a review of Peter F. Drucker’s 1980 book ‘Managing in Turbulent Times.’ The reviewer notes that this is a troubling book ‘to anyone familiar with the unsettled outlook for our economic, political, and social environment,’ because of Mr. Drucker’s credibility as a management analyst, and because ‘the turbulent times that he identifies call for changes in management attitudes and practices that are difficult to make.’

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

Description: This article examines conglomerate management, the need for planning, and examples of effective acquisitions management.