Description: The author describes his recent experience taking in only water and vegetable juice for 2 days and translating his lessons to actuarial practice.

Description: This is part 3 of a series on how to have influential conversations that build your profile as a leader.

Description: A compilation of reader responses to a tricky management situation, where a consultant doesn't want to work with someone else on the team.

Description: 20th anniversary issue of The Stepping Stone by Leadership & Development Section. practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, section activities

Description: A look at cognitive biases, which are common tendencies of people when thinking about issues and when making decisions. Confirmation bias and sunk cost effects.

Description: Article covers how we can make the most of our time, both professionally and personally, through prioritizing and simplifying.

Description: July 2019 issue of The Stepping Stone by Leadership & Development Section. practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, section activities.

Description: In his book The Power of Habit (2012), Charles Duhigg tells a tale of finding common ground and reaching consensus on change. The common ground that was sought between warring corporate tribes was mutually beneficial, not just to achieve the ends to which those changes were aimed, but also for the cooperation that they engendered across the entire organization.