Description: This article discusses the differences between insurance direct marketers and actuaries and the similarities on which they can build.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session explored ways to develop skills to motivate, evaluate, manage, and direct the work of technical professionals. Most of this session was devoted to the subject of management style.

Description: This article presents the idea that a New Product Notebook, which contains all of the aspects of a product's development and is accessible to all involved, can make the product development process more efficient.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about consultants sharing the secrets of managing clients and projects successfully.

Description: This article reports on the latest annual survey about the relationship between reinsurers and their cedant clients. Some improvement was seen in 2011 from both actuaries and underwriters.

Description: This article presents a fable about the issues that arise between marketers and actuaries in the product development process.

Description: This teaching session, number 37TS, was presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. The instructors ask: “Are you responsible for the completion of work that requires the assistance of people you have no authority over? How do you get things done if you're not in charge and can't do it all yourself? Do you have peers, project team members, and at least one boss who impacts the results you are able to achieve? To be more effective, how can you enlist the help of others who do not report to you?” Discussion from participants is included. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: Considerations in the assessment of when to leave a job include mentorship, fit to company environment and culture, and timing.

Description: In this article the authors ask: “what if you could be more focused, calmer and better able to perform? …what if the only thing you needed to do to perform better was to become aware of a few things, and that by doing these things, you could improve performance and help others achieve better results?” Referencing David Rock's latest book, “Your Brain at Work,” which shares key findings on the science of the brain and how the brain functions, the authors explain how we can be more focused and productive and help others do the same, and how to understand and correct what's happening when we head off-track.

Description: This paper studies actuaries' educational backgrounds and social relationships. The purpose of the study is two-fold. It looks at the educational backgrounds of actuaries and how their backgrounds affect their careers. By this, the author wants to see if things such as the major studied or the attendance of graduate school affected the time to attain Associateship and Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries. Secondly, the author wants to know if being in the actuarial profession has any effect on marriage and family, as well as to know if marriage and family has any effect on the career. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, Vol. 2.