Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Leading Through Uncertainty : How Umpqua Bank Emerged from the Great Recession Better and Stronger than Ever by Raymond P. Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in November. Hatching Twitter : A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal by Nick Bilton.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 18, 2020

Fortunately, she spots a rickety old raft on the bank, off in the brush. They introduce the concept with a story: A traveler on an important journey comes to a raging river. It seems there’s no way to cross. And that’s terrible news because this is an important journey. She’s able to continue her important journey.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2016

This former working-class credit union in British Columbia seized an opportunity that bigger banks missed: unique customer experience. Financial “spas” with personalized, concierge service and expert advice transformed Blueshore into the bank of choice for affluent clients. Case in point: Blueshore Financial.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 20, 2012

Stop putting deposits in your resentment bank account. Make withdrawals from your resentment bank account. Meaning isn’t in the words: it’s in the interpretation of them—by you and others. When in doubt, ask, “Can you help me see what you see?”. Use rephrasing as a Twenty-First-Century risk management tool.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2018

VIDEO: Understand blockchain in under 7 minutes : Don Tapscott with Lloyds Bank. Here are a selection of tweets from March 2018 that you might have missed: The Reciprocity Ring : When Giving At Work Becomes An Act Not A Check from @JohnBaldoni. Are you a Role Model? by @LeadToday Steve Keating. Career pathing: an obsolete practice?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2012

A lot, in the case of French trader Jérôme Kerviel at the Société Générale banking group. His need to be liked led to $4.9 billion in massive financial fraud by means of elaborate computer manipulations. Kerviel is thought not to have profited personally from his crimes.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Century Bank and Trust Company, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, the Center for Community Change, and the National Board of Jumpstart. In 2016, Jenkins-Scott founded JJS Advising, focusing on leadership development and organizational strategy.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

But “the steps Roosevelt took during the next hundred days to stem the immediate banking crisis set in motion a turnaround that would forever alter the relationship between the government and the people.” Indeed, he thought that “the whole house of cards” might collapse before he had a chance to be sworn in.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

They shared this from the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ): The second skill needed to be a great leader in today’s context is to be inherently curious. “Leaders cannot readily assume that any information can be kept private and must be prepared to deal with all situations publicly.”

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2019

They recommend that we “Err on the side of too little research, too little data, information, and knowledge—invest the effort instead in the requisite variety of people who carry the tacit data banks and the powerful processors around between their two ears.”. Agree on the Right Agenda. Do not preset the agenda.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. He’ll ask CEOs at board meetings, ‘ What was our long-term strategy again?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2018

The problem is with the Mexicans, or the Muslims, or the banks, or the police, or the pharmaceutical companies.” False certainty may feel like a white lie, but it’s a lie nonetheless. The political discourse of late has become fixated on certainty, and it’s discouraging.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

W ILLIAM DONALDSON has led a full life.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

He describes lessons like don’t rely on others to fund your idea, imitate creatively, keep value higher than price, pivot often, and why they typically don’t get loans from big banks.

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Leading Blog

MAY 15, 2019

For over two decades, he has designed and delivered leadership and succession planning programs for experienced and emerging leaders for clients such as NASA, Accenture, CNN, Saks Fifth Avenue, Hugo Boss, UBS Bank, Walsh Construction, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

For example, “in a highly connected environment, an investment bank can start conducting business differently and prosper as a result, then outrun the regulatory environment and spin out of control. Cultural lag means some element of the culture isn’t keeping up with all the changes around it creating the potential for confusion at best.

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Leading Blog

JULY 2, 2018

I woke up soon enough to realize that if the only way you can define life is by the size of my bank account, then I’ve failed. Too many people measure success the wrong way. Money should be at the bottom of the list, not the top.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

For example, in the mid-1990s, Chase Bank witnessed a nine digit windfall predicting mortgage outcome. Beyond benefiting you and I as individuals, prediction bestows power upon an organization: big business secures a competitive stronghold by predicting the future destiny and value of individual assets.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2021

No matter what the future may bring, real estate will remain a dominant part of the story of business in the U.S. * * * Richard Vague serves as Pennsylvania Banking and Securities Secretary. Vague was also co-founder and CEO of two banks and founder of the economic data service Tychos.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

million dollars to the bank), finding and getting talent, setting up an office, building the basics, building an inventory and the mailer, and building a website. Any entrepreneur will relate to the journey, and any would-be entrepreneur will find it enlightening.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2019

In the early days, many of IBM’s customers were banks, so IBM’s salespeople dressed to reflect their customers. For example, there was a long tradition of IBM executives dressing formally in a suit and tie. Yet that wasn’t a value, it was an early manifestation of a value. So, the value was to be close to customers.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

After graduating from the University of Oxford with a physics degree, he went into securities trading, first at Yamaichi International and then at the Bank of America. Benham is a renowned, albeit somewhat inaccessible, figure in the British gambling world. That inspired Benham to leave his day job and focus on gambling.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

The CEO of Connecticut's Farmington Bank told George that its Main Thing is to "Drive economic development in central Connecticut.". Department of Agriculture stated her organization's Main Thing as "Ending hunger in this country.".

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Expansionist activities of farmers, exporters, and, particularly, investment bankers — spearheaded by the Second Bank of United States — sowed the seeds of the boom leading to the bust. The first recognizable boom and bust cycle in the U.S. economy occurred after the War of 1812 when inflated prices created an unstainable boom.

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