Description: This article discusses the need to be self-aware of our development items, and to stretch ourselves to get better in the areas that we must develop.

Description: Goal setting and helpful resources for 2018.

Description: This article is a review of the book by Joshua Foer. It covers the history of memory techniques, the way a human brain organizes memory, and various problems and successes in memory recall. The author starts by interviewing memory savants, and learns from them that the ability to perform seemingly impossible memory tricks is simply a matter of studying and practicing proven techniques used for millennia. This review suggests that actuaries can benefit greatly from some of these techniques despite the availability of electronic hand-held devices to recall facts because the person who does not need to rely upon such devices can have a huge perceptual advantage in executive presentations.

Description: The Stepping Stone issue 60, November 2015

Description: Cassie He and Linda Liu, two actuarial students, invite Mark Freedman, the President-Elect of SOA to share with us his experience as an actuary, the challenges and opportunities facing actuaries and the outlook for the profession as SOA president.

Description: A review of business schools’ online offerings.

Description: Speaker discusses the new style of management which uses appropriate interpersonal skills to motivate and inspire employees, and which builds relationships where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This article stresses the importance of aligning goal-setting, prioritization and performance evaluation.

Description: The author recommends American business people visit the web site:www.businessfordiplomaticaction.com, the brainchild of Keith Reinhard, a nonprofit to work to improve America’s image abroad.

Description: This article is about putting your career or business on the fast track by digging into challenges.