As bankers plant the seeds of renewal in 2009, I’m hopeful we’ll grab the snow shovel and throw the dung our industry has built around the dogma of “sales culture” in the dumpster and get real about creating value for customers.[Read more]
Boys, I’m hoping in all your high-profile C-SPAN hearings and hob knobbing with these new financial “celebrities” you remember that it’s the grass roots of our country that has and always will have the power to bring us out of bad times. [Read more]
It wasn’t fun hearing FDIC Director Sheila Bair report this week on the state of the banking industry. Going forward, only those community banks drafting a new playbook during today’s Dark Ages will have a shot at attending the next gen community banking conferences a decade from now. [Read more]