Description: an excerpt from a speech discussing how experts can become so immersed in their work that they cannot see how their profession relates to and affects society. This is excerpted, with permission, from Mr. Anderson’s speech, “Strategic Planning for Corporate Growth,” to the Chemical Marketing Research Assn.

Description: This 1978 session discussion included important challenges to the actuarial profession that result from current social and economic changes, opportunities for actuarial input in a political process, and expanding horizons for the actuarial profession. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 1.