Every turkey has its day Each year, just before Thanksgiving, our government has a tradition of giving one lucky turkey a presidential pardon. Actually, each year a turkey and its alternate (there is an alternate in case the first turkey can’t
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Don’t be fooled by the Pirates Profit Pirates are a sneaky bunch, but if you know what to look for, they’re pretty easily seen. There’s a high probability that 30% of your coworkers are pirates. We’ll assume you’re not one
Read more →30% of your current employees are involved in Pirate activity In today’s banking environment, many community bankers are pressing for ways to generate additional income by finding new fee sources or raising fees. Some are falling back on mass marketing, while
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Oxymoron: A combination of contradictory words Jumbo Shrimp, Student Teacher, Blind Eye, and Alone Together. We define individual performance as the actions employees should take on a daily basis. If your actions don’t match up with your community bank’s expectations, then guess what? You
Read more →As a leader, are you protecting the status quo? We talk a lot about the status quo because we are constantly confronted by its protectors. In some cases we have described these protectors as Profit Pirates and Snipers. Sometimes they
Read more →Inner branding By Bernstel, Janet BighamPublication: ABA Bank MarketingDate: Tuesday, April 1 2003 While trying to institute any new initiative in your bank, you’re bound to run into the profit pirates. These are the “We’ve tried that before and it
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