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When Scaling Your Leadership is a Matter of Life or Death

Next Level Blog

That’s exactly the question that Los Angeles Regional Food Bank CEO Michael Flood and his team had to answer and act on this year. The food that those folks receive from the Food Bank enables them to pay for other necessities like health insurance. It was up to the Food Bank to keep them fed while they waited.

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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Leading Blog

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.

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The Empire of Debt

Chris Brady

Roger Miller Posted by: Roger Miller | February 06, 2011 at 08:51 AM Great post and find Chris! By His grace and to His glory, Mike Posted by: Mike Banks | February 08, 2011 at 05:47 PM Chris - Thanks for sharing this information about the present "debt vortex" we're living in/under. Thanks for making a difference.

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101 Greatest Quotes About Success and How to Achieve It

Lead from Within

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. – -Will Rogers. It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. – -Seneca. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. – -George S. – -Robert Frost.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

Your customers are a finite resource, says Martha Rogers, Founding Partner of Peppers & Rogers Group. One Canadian bank applied this thinking to bounced checks. Focus on return on customer. Instead of charging “good” customers to meet fee income targets, they sent notes asking them to deposit additional funds.

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The Wasting of Your Life

Chris Brady

Roger Posted by: Roger Miller | January 03, 2011 at 10:04 AM Chris, What a great post. Most don't realize even the Joneses don't truly have these things, they are just borrowing them from the bank! Thanks so much for your mentor ship. You said, "1. Where did you get the blessings you already have?"

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Radical Recovery Tools

Strategy Driven

Martha Rogers, co-founder of Peppers & Rogers Group, says, “This isn’t a financial crisis, but a crisis of trust.” Yet, the more jobs we cut, the more consumers fear for their future and stop spending. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy: lack of spending leads to job cuts, leads to less spending – and so on. She makes a good point.

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