Bankers: Five Ways to Use Profitability Data to Move You Forward

Accountability is a dirty word. It evokes images of finger wagging, stern looks, and sheepish floor staring. I’m sure at one point of the word’s evolution it wasn’t this way. […]

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Cultural Conversation in Banking

Are your incentives consistent with your strategy and culture? I was recently interviewed by the Financial Managers Society on this topic, and as a lead-up to my presentation on the […]

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Five Ideas to Build an Accountability Culture at Your Bank

I recently spoke at the ABA CFO Exchange in Nashville on building an accountability culture. Talking banker accountability to a room full of CFOs is like a politician telling senior […]

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Bankers: Think about what gets measured.

“What gets measured, gets managed.” Why did we need Peter Drucker to point this out? Educators are forever carping about standardized tests because they are spending a lot of time […]

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