Description: To Better Communication by Vincent G. Mace, Jr. from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, October 2004, Issue No. 16.

Description: This is a review of of two of Patrick Lencioni's books on management and leadership. One addresses how to deal with team disfunctionality and the other is about improving meetings.

Description: The final part in a series of 4 on landing your dream job: The interview. The author covers the the final two steps: Avoid the Q&A interview and Focus on the challenges.

Description: Summary of the International Section Council survey results, and how the results will impact council actions going forward.

Description: Estimation of hazard rates at extremely old ages poses serious challenges to researchers: 1 The observed mortality deceleration may be at least partially an artifact of mixing different birth cohorts with different mortality heterogeneity effect 2 Standard assumptions of hazard rate estimates may be invalid when risk of death is extremely high at old ages 3 Ages of very old people may be exaggerated. In this paper we propose an alternative approach, which gives an opportunity to resolve the first two problems by compiling data for more homogeneous single-year birth cohorts with hazard rates measured at narrow monthly age intervals. Possible ways of resolving the third problem of hazard rate estimation were elaborated.

Description: To be an outstanding leader, you must become a masterful communicator. Learn a number of simple yet critical steps to achieving that.

Description: A seven step plan to help actuaries start thinking like business owners when it comes to managing their careers, and enhance their career 'stock value'.

Description: Tips for effective communication globally.

Description: This was a review of a June 4, 2013 SOA webinar. Jerry Enoch was the moderator. Presenters were Mark Birdsall, Mike Boerner, and Perry Kupferman, regulatory actuaries with Kansas, Texas, and California. The intent was to improve communications between small company actuaries and regulators by clarifying expectations and addressing some issues. ORSA and AG38 were mentioned but the focus was on current Appointed Actuary filings and future PBR requirements.