Description: Book review of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen.

Description: The author offers his seven-word maxims for work / life balance and development of a personal leadership foundation.

Description: Analytics, big data and predictive modeling are red-hot buzzwords and compelling mandates in the insurance industry. As the demand for analytics and big data continues to increase, how does the actuarial experience and perspective fit in? Margaret Resce Milkint of The Jacobson Group discusses the current state of the analytics field and strategies for ensuring that actuaries and their skill set remain relevant in the growing word of analytics.

Description: Three ways to ask for more support at work if you have ever found yourself overwhelmed by your to-do list at work and know you’re capable of doing the things on the list but wonder whether you SHOULD be doing some of them.

Description: July 2017 issue of The Stepping Stone by Leadership & Development Section. practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, section activities

Description: Leadership writing contest entry for Admirable Leader category. Lessons in the importance of speaking up from Alexander Hamilton.

Description: "We are what we do," is the assumption behind this article. It describes how a person can complete key projects by starting in 15-minute increments.

Description: Note from the outgoing chairperson.

Description: discussion of the Product Development Section’s plans for the annual meeting.

Description: This article describes the LEARN program which provides state regulators with a convenient means of obtaining the knowledge base needed to understand how reinsurance works. It is an update of the article originally published in the July 2011 issue Reinsurance News.