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Tommy Hawkins - DaLand

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...

Joel Morehouse - DaLand

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...

JD Dykes - DaLand

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...

JD Dykes - DaLand

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...

Tommy Hawkins - DaLand

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...

Tommy Hawkins - DaLand

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...

Tommy Hawkins - DaLand

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...

Jon Ungerland - CIO, DaLand

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...

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