Description: This article describes and shows how to apply an often overlooked but crucial concept to build influence in conversations, tension management.

Description: A real life situation is posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This is the compilation of responses to "What Would You Do?" for a case study that involved a management dilemma.

Description: This article describes the positive effects associated with using one's own name when engaged in self-talk. Research reveals that It frees speakers from their fears and makes them wiser about themselves, similar to how they are about others.

Description: The complete May 2015 issue of The Stepping Stone.

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 handling a difficult employee management situation

Description: A series of brief notes on how actuaries can learn from some of the backstories of the movie "The Interview".

Description: Chairperson's corner.

Description: To persuade successfully and non-manipulatively, it’s important to understand five key principles of influence. In this four-part series, I’ll be covering these five principles that are based on human psychology and behavior. Let’s look at the first two now.

Description: Three specific things a manager should avoid doing in order to keep from failing as a manager.

Description: Key points for the effective executive, inspired by Peter Drucker