employee development

Banking New Year’s Resolutions – We Have Opinions / Negotiating Merger Transactions

 Podcast Show Notes: Our This Month In Banking (TMIB) podcast features discussion with colleagues and other industry thought leaders on interesting banking news that happened this month. TMIB will […]


Build or Buy: Develop Staff or Buy Off of the Street?

News Flash: There are fewer community banks, and those that remain keep getting bigger. During the past 10 years, the number of U. S. banks has dropped by a third […]


Banking School: The ivory tower could be yours.

May 21, 2012 | Uncategorized

I am sitting at Gate 124 in Orlando waiting for my ride home from a long journey. Prior to Orlando, it was Dallas. In Dallas, I taught bank profitability and […]


Do We Care About Leadership?

April 15, 2012 | Uncategorized

On a recent plane ride I sat next to the Commander of the NCO Academy at Fort Jackson, South Carolina (see picture from one of last year’s classes). He is […]


Are you Training for the Gold?

I recently watched the movie Miracle about the 1980 USA hockey team for the third time.  In the movie, legendary coach Herb Brooks told his team that they may not […]