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: Latest installment of a series applying lessons from Buddhist philosophy to the working world of actuaries. This installment focuses on practicing the yogic principle of "ahimsa" or non-harming with ourselves, and the importance of respecting and caring for oneself in order to better serve the needs of others.

Description: A brief overview of last year's Education & Research Section Council work, accomplishments and challenges from its outgoing chair.

Description: An update to the risk management readers on what the JRMS is planning to do over 2023 to serve its membership.

Description: Significant progress has been made in transforming the actuarial profession but it remains untransformed. Universities have been instrumental in training future actuaries and this article is about how the University of Cape Town has been addressing transformation in the actuarial program. The school system in South Africa has struggled to produce the required quality and quantity of school leavers prepared for higher education. This has led to universities having to develop ways to manage this problem. The article discusses the effectiveness of some of the initiatives introduced at UCT.