Description: An actuary's review of the business classic "How to Win Friends & Influence People" by Dale Carnegie.

Description: The author uses the example of a female matador to explore fixed and growth mindsets, and suggests ways to adjust beliefs to achieve greater success.

Description: Eight steps to achieving a personal goal.

Description: The Stepping Stone, the newsletter of the Management and Personal Development Section. August 2014 entire issue.

Description: This article provides advice and guidance to young actuaries looking to influence their leaders and senior management.

Description: The article hits highlights of of an annual meeting session that featured Sue Ann Collins, Sharon Giffen, and Tonya Manning discussing everything from career development to work life balance.

Description: This article encourages readers to consider sub-goals as well as their primary one, leading to greater goal-completion and mastery.

Description: A review of the classic business book Built to Last, originally published in 1994. Looking at the past twenty years -- how have the BTL companies done? How have their comparison companies fared? Read the review and find out!

Description: The article summarizes a key take-away of mine while working internationally for a 3 month period. The take-away is how a global perspective helps us personally and professionally grow to be more effective leaders.

Description: In “How You Can Help Your Manager Succeed”, Darcy Eikenberg writes about the feedback that she has gotten from her clients and colleagues that shows that many managers are considered either bad managers, or “just okay” managers, but that there is hope for the “just okay” manager, and that is You (or, the person reporting to a manager). Darcy outlines three ways that people who report to “just okay” managers can help those managers succeed. Those ways are to replace your frustration with empathy, take control, and don’t assume what success looks like.