Description: A review of the business etiquette book Miss Manners Minds Your Business by Judith Martin (aka Miss Manners) and Nicholas Ivor Martin. The book explores the difference between business and social manners, and why paying attention to that difference is important.

Description: Article describes how to make the most of our time, both professionally and personally, through prioritizing and simplifying.

Description: Adapted from a chapter of "Awake at Work" by Michael Carroll, this edition of the series discusses how fundamental Buddhist principles of change and impermanance pervade the world of the actuary and how the actuary can work with these principles to add value to his employer or client.

Description: A personal reflection and anecdote on a quote by Carl Jung. "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

Description: This is the second article in a three-part series focused on the "Do Nothing" leadership approach presented by Professor J. Keith Murnighan, a professor at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study involved whether an actuary who had recently started consulting should consider a job offer to return to a corporate role.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study involved whether a 'promotion' was truly such, and what should be the actuary's next step.

Description: Principle #4: People make buying decisions based on emotion and justify these decisions with logic. To be influential, we need to take into account both logic and emotion. Of the two, emotion is a much more powerful motivating force. Unfortunately, too many people ignore the emotional component and focus solely on logic - neglecting what compels people to buy.

Description: A business leader and researcher describe the importance of effective leaders revealing their failures as well as successes.

Description: Chairperson's Corner recaps the transformation L&D experienced the last few years. Do Nothing is a tribute toleaders and provides background/leader's traits.