Winning leadership in March and beyond

by Shawn Temple, On The Mark Strategies

It’s the best time of the year! College basketball and March Madness© bring us the greatest tournament in the world! The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, the triumph and the heart-wrenching agony of it all.

Just like the financial services industry, the framework of the game itself is standardized. Every court is 94 feet long and 50 feet wide. The height of the goal is 10 feet and teams get points in increments based on the difficulty of the attempt. The rules encourage freedom of movement and you get penalized for blocking another’s movement. On the other hand, one cannot simply run over a competitor with reckless abandon just because one is able to do so.

Every game, and every industry, needs rules by which to play so that everyone understands how to win.

Let’s take a look beyond the 94X50 to see what else is happening and how it applies to how we play, lead, coach, and win in our credit unions and community banks.

 

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