Description: A book review of 'Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best…and Learn from the Worst'

Description: Book review of 'Developing the Leader Within You'.

Description: The reviewer believes the actuary reading this book gets a modern, small company exposure to running a company and doing your work. 'It provides an insight into how the new generation of entrepreneurs are building their businesses and how we can successfully operate in them. We can use this book to gain new ideas about how to govern ourselves and run our teams to be successful and attractive in this new future.'

Description: Emails are to the business world what cars are to a road trip: we can't get anywhere without them. This article offers 6 specific strategies to write emails more effectively. The theme is that re-reading your emails to check for a clear goal, conciseness, appropriate tone, etc. is a worthwhile time investment as it saves your reader time and prevents problems caused by miscommunication.

Description: The SOA and Plug and Play relationship will allow InsurTech start-ups to validate their technology and modeling processes with actuaries. The strategic partnership with Plug and Play demonstrates the SOA’s commitment to providing its members with dynamic learning experiences, rewarding volunteer opportunities, and collaborative events where they can learn from the experiences and ideas of peers around the world.

Description: Business intelligence;

Description: In this article chairperson Anthony Dardis takes a look back at the achievements of the Investment Section Council halfway through his tenure as chair.

Description: This article contains the treasurer's report from the Smaller Insurance Company Section Council meeting at the 50th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Description: This article measures the performance of the Smaller Insurance Company Section in light of the purpose of the section.

Description: Part 1 of a 2-part series featuring interviews with four former SmallCo section chairs. The interviews shared their view of the value of SmallCo and of holding a leadership role. They also discussed the challenges of leading this section and gave advice for new section council members.