Description: The author explores leadership—what it is, how to achieve it, and qualities of great leaders.

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: 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: 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 is a table from an article in The Actuary Magazine entitled On Business Strategy.

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

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: The February/March 2016 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.