Description: Peter Jacobi offers six common mistakes made by businesses today.

Description: How to get involved in succession planning.

Description: This article discusses two key challenges one must overcome to gather the best data for managers to make data-driven decisions.

Description: This article provides a model to assist teaching and coaching. It has been used to improve relationships and performance both in individual situations and in group settings.

Description: This article is discusses the concept and practical ways to apply the understanding of empowerment and how to empower people. There is a high payback for those who use empowerment effectively.

Description: A real life situation is posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision, and readers are invited to submit their responses to "What Would You Do?" This issue’s case study involved an actuarial manager facing the potential resignation of a key employee.

Description: Leadership inspiration essay asserting that the things that are the most valuable to us are also the things that we have to work the hardest for.

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 a difficult hiring decision faced by an actuarial manager.

Description: The August/September 2015 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: Management & Personal Development Section had a contest to have members write book reviews on MPD books. This is the winning review. The reviewer thinks actuaries can benefit from use of the 'multiplier effect' in an already powerful profession.