Description: The article highlights the fallacies of multitasking and targets six actions or points of focus that will enable readers to accomplish more and be significantly more productive.

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 an internal promotion - or is it?

Description: Two actuaries describe how taking an improvisational acting class can help in the business world, with specific examples of improvisational techniques as they relate to actuarial work.

Description: The entire issue of The Stepping Stone, February 2015 - Issue 57

Description: A review of the business etiquette book Miss Manners Minds Your Business by Judith Martin (aka Miss Manners) and Nicholas Ivor Martin. The book explores the difference between business and social manners, and why paying attention to that difference is important.

Description: Article describes how to make the most of our time, both professionally and personally, through prioritizing and simplifying.

Description: Adapted from a chapter of "Awake at Work" by Michael Carroll, this edition of the series discusses how fundamental Buddhist principles of change and impermanance pervade the world of the actuary and how the actuary can work with these principles to add value to his employer or client.

Description: A personal reflection and anecdote on a quote by Carl Jung. "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

Description: This is the second article in a three-part series focused on the "Do Nothing" leadership approach presented by Professor J. Keith Murnighan, a professor at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study involved whether an actuary who had recently started consulting should consider a job offer to return to a corporate role.