Description: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is more than just sexual farces and fart jokes. In the Tale of Melibee, Chaucer imparts wisdom on choosing advisors, soliciting advice, and judging advice. This is informed by Chaucer's experience as a royal official, as well as his great education.

Description: This article discusses the importance of identifying foolish trades that actuaries make and offers some practical steps to minimize these type of trades.

Description: In this real life case study, an actuarial candidate tried to get the hiring manager to increase the level of the position for which she was interviewing. Did that raise red flags about her candidacy? A compilation of reader responses is presented, along with what actually happened.

Description: March 2020 issue of The Stepping Stone by Leadership & Development Section. practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, section activities

Description: A short article on a hypothetical workplace dilemma that deals with a possibly unreliable subordinate.

Description: Latest installment in a series covering the application of Buddhist principles to the working world of actuaries. This installment specifically addresses how the desires and wishes of actuaries are never truly satisfied but rather just shift to other wants and desires, and what actuaries can do to find more peace in their workplace and careers.

Description: The article describes my career in Diversity, starting at the workplace, and continuing during my current service on the Board. Readers should get ideas as to how they too can work towards improving Diversity and Inclusion in our workplaces and our profession.

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 management hiring someone to make changes, then ignoring all suggestions.