Play nice! How senior leadership and the board should cooperate

Your credit union needs results.

You need to accomplish your strategic initiatives. You need to increase loan volume. And most of all, you need to grow.

But the truth is, you’re not going to do any of these things if your leadership team and board get along as well as Tom and Jerry…that is to say, poorly.

That’s because good leadership isn’t a cat-and-mouse game of who can fool the other. It’s about building a cohesive team and achieving alignment. And aligned teams get results.

 

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