Description: This article describes why dressing up - even while working remotely- can help create work / life balance when the day is done.

Description: This article gives a formula for reversing failure into success

Description: Two actuaries describe how taking an improvisational acting class can help in the business world, with specific examples of improvisational techniques as they relate to actuarial work.

Description: The author discusses his transition from journalist to actuary. His goal is to help 21st century actuaries to be the best that we can be.

Description: Author shares personal experience with working on an exam committee and discusses the benefits.

Description: An article discussing that office politics are real, and something you can handle.

Description: How to strike a balance between words and graphs.

Description: Encouraging submission of articles from any interested parties

Description: Innovation has become a fashionable concept, but what does it really mean? Are the concepts of innovation and invention synonyms? Is innovation a good thing? If so, why so many oppose it? If we want to become innovators, what considerations should be kept in mind? Are there examples of innovative thought in the actuarial field? If so, can you think of some of them? If you want answers to these questions please read Jay Jaffe’s article, Becoming a More Effective Innovator. Innovation is a big idea in the business education, so much so that many MBA programs are including courses on the subject, so much so that, as we know, our Section is called Entrepreneurial & Innovation.

Description: This article reviews environmental issues as discussed in The Doomsday Book by Thames and Hudson, London. From The Actuary, May 1971, Vol. 5, No. 5.