Strategy, Trash Talking, and the Pursuit of Excellence
In his recent article, Reopening America, Jon Ungerland explores the conflation of the strategic and the operational. “If your financial...
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House Cleaning and Waymarkers to the 'New Normal'
In extraordinary circumstances it’s tempting to look for extraordinary factors to account for changes. Occam’s razor calls us back to...
COVID: How Many Small Businesses Could $10 Billion Save?
If you’ve read some of our other postings, one of DaLand’s top concerns is ensuring that credit unions occupy a place of relevance that...
Feast and Famine: The Historical Mission of the CU and Imperative of Relevance
There’s no doubt that the economy has served up a feast of growth, development, and productivity in recent years. At the tail end of 2019...
The Manufactured Recession
I read a disquieting article today posted in The Hill called Welcome to the Fake Recession, which assumes that life will "go back to...
Relevance Strategies in 'The New Normal': A Generational Opportunity for Local FIs
Businesses large and small are reacting to the instant, crippling loss of revenue with sweeping layoffs. That’s why (unsurprisingly) last...
Relevance in a Time of Coronavirus: The Death of the "Mobile First" Strategy
Maybe you missed the news about the Coronavirus Stimulus package; but it contained an epoch-ending announcement for our industry – money...
Couple Trillion Reasons to Get Serious about Digital Currency and Control of Community/Consumer Data
So, you woke up to the news of the Coronavirus Stimulus Package, and you find yourself in one of four camps: (1) shocked by the news of...