Description: How to narrow your focus or niche for business success.

Description: A leadership interview with Margaret Meister looking back at her career trajectory and sharing lessons learned.

Description: Latest installment in a series covering the application of Buddhist principles to the actuarial work setting. This installment covers the challenges actuaries face in dealing with unfamiliar and uncertain assignments. It provides both encouragement that actuaries are more capable and multi-faceted in their skill sets and offers suggestions taken from the meditation cushion and yoga mat to aid in tapping into those capabilities.

Description: The author points out how good customer service, be it to an inside or outside customer, can build influence and relationship capital that can pay off for you in your career development.

Description: This article is an interview with Steve Kelner. He shares his keys to success in an actuarial career.

Description: Our thoughts and beliefs have incredible power to shape our lives and the lives of others. The author looks at three instruments for use in shaping our thoughts.

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 choosing between two actuarial candidates in a hiring decision.

Description: The introduction of a new recurring feature, full of relevant content by young professionals, for young professionals.

Description: Have you ever felt paralyzed seeing all the things before you that seemed impossible to complete? Asking for help can help, even though most of us don't want to seem inept or weak. This article outlines the benefits of asking for help, provides advice about how to do it, and describes the benefits of doing so.

Description: Feature article describing the author’s management techniques.