Description: Alternative Learning—Wizard of OZ Style by Larry Jackson from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, July 2003, Issue No. 12.

Description: Book review of Tim Ferris' book 'The Four Hour Work Week'. A book dealing with managing one's time better and automating tasks best done by computers.

Description: The Complete Actuary: Actuaries Do Manage by William C. Cutlip from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, January 2001, Issue No. 5.

Description: Understanding Your Management Style by Cindy Forbes from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, April 1999, Issue No. 1.

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: Even in published scientific research, we find fraudulent data. What is an actuary to do? Let's consider our actuarial principles and standards of practice to question our data quality and truthfulness. In specific, the article addresses ASOP 56 on Modeling and considerations of model risk as well as ASOP 23 on Data Quality. Recent examples are given from a Harvard research fraud controversy as well as questionable sumo statistics.

Description: An example of a presentation gone wrong and a discussion of ways it could be improved.

Description: How to create the hooks in your presentations that keep the listener at the level of maximum engagement, and provide interesting jumping off points for further questions. Instead of worrying if you've told people enough, put your attention to always leaving them wanting to know more.

Description: Feature article offering interviewing advice for candidates on how to manage tension.

Description: The author gives advice on how to sell your point of view using two basic concepts: having conviction about the value you are providing and remianing completely detached from the results.