Description: The appeal of the actuarial profession to women.

Description: An argument for a lifelong study of the humanities for personal and intellectual development, as well as some advice to get started.

Description: The author notes the changes in the marketplace and the actuarial profession over the last 20 years as a result of technology and demographic changes.

Description: Latest installment in series that applies Buddhist philosophy to the actuary's daily activities. This installment discusses the challenges for actuaries in dealing with the ongoing ups and downs of the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses mindfulness tools to cope with the resulting stresses in a peaceful and effective way.

Description: Discusses how if you can learn to find out what your employees need from you, you can do a better job of managing those employees

Description: The Women’s Leadership Forum at the 2014 SOA Annual Meeting offered female actuaries an opportunity to learn some useful career advice from Diane Schumaker-Krieg, global head of Research, Economics and Strategy at Wells Fargo.The session concluded with a few remarks from Anna Rappaport about a new report on retirement risks for women and related issues.

Description: Book review of the book First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

Description: After research involving auto insurance is retracted due to fraud, I revisit my own book review and unskeptical quoting of that now-debunked research. A lesson in ASOP 23, on Data Quality, ensues, as it seems data in the research was falsified. There is also a lesson in ASOP 56, Modeling, which includes aspects of relying on outside experts for model input. At the end of it all, the value of our actuarial professional standards, in light of other professions seemingly having no standards (or no serious repercussions for breaching said standards), shines through. Also, be skeptical of 'one simple trick' approaches to transform the insurance industry.

Description: Mentoring: Is It All What It’s Cracked Up to Be? by Cindy Forbes from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, November 1999, Issue No. 2.

Description: In this article, corporate culture expert, S. Chris Edmonds, is interviewed. Chris is an author, speaker and consultant on creating corporate cultures that are based on values alignment and high performance. In addition to sharing Chris' expertise with the actuarial community, the goal of this article is to also get actuaries to think about their leadership beyond the confines of technical expertise and leading a team.