The Dangers of Rumination
Reflection is a powerful tool that can be used to better ourselves and our work. However, athlete and CEO Liz Winninger advises against reflecting to the point of rumination, which can have the opposite effect and end up demotivating employees.
Strategies to Avoid Mergers: Economies of Scale
When merging, credit unions often cite a lack of scale and economic capability. Liz Winninger and Vic Pantea discuss ways CUSOs can offer support these credit unions to help combat the rise of mergers in the industry.
Strategies to Avoid Mergers: Adopting a Broker Model
Credit union consolidation and mergers pose a threat to the industry’s many CUSOs and vendors, say Liz Winninger and Victor Pantea. Assisting credit unions in adopting a broker-like model, they argue, can help credit unions increase their product and service offerings and potentially avoid mergers altogether.
Mount Stupid and the Valley of Despair
Xtend CEO Liz Winninger discusses the Gartner Hype Cycle in how it relates to business and how you can overcome the Valley of Despair.
“I’m Not Your Daughter”, and Other Stupid Things You’re Doing
Is a generational approach to marketing the wrong way to approach your members. In so many words… Yes. Xtend CEO Liz Winninger explains why a blanket approach to marketing generations, which themselves contain wide ranges of ages, is a fool’s errand.
