Description: The author briefly describes a hypothetical example of several unconscious biases in the workplace, drawing upon the behavioral economics work of Kahneman and Tversky. He presents data to refute the snap judgments that are all too common in human interaction.

Description: An actuary's perspective on taking an overseas assignment.

Description: Each of us has our own unique talents and approaches to solving problems.

Description: Career planning

Description: Executive coach Marcel Schwantes returns for Part 4 of a six-part series, discussing one of the most counterintuitive best practices of servant leaders—allowing others to share leadership. Here, he describes the four basics for creating leader-leader rather than leader-follower cultures.

Description: How great servant leaders develop their people.

Description: Executive Coach Marcel Schwantes demonstrated that applying daily practices of Servant Leadership is really the best way to engage workers to perform at a high level, which will improve the bottom line. Here Schwantes returns to kick-off a six part series that delves deep into the best practices of what a servant leader is, and does.

Description: Adapted from portion of book titled "Awake at Work" by Michael Carroll, applying Buddhist philosophy to the reality that all employment arrangements and careers, even those of actuaries, must come to an end.

Description: Men and women have different leadership skills. But working alongside men, women can effectively leverage their leadership strengths to bolster their careers.

Description: We can learn a lot about actuarial exams but they don't really teach us about the business world and how to operate in it.