By Leisa L. Goodman

I DVR most TV shows I watch, so I don't see many ads, but one recently caught my attention. It poses a question that goes something like, "Will we remember this era as the great recession? Or the recession that made us great?"

Hopefully, the community as a whole is ready to listen to the wake-up call the economy is sending, and learn from our mistakes so we can come out on the other side stronger and wiser for the wear. Credit unions can help by making financial education readily available.

Posted by Ron Jooss

By Lisa Hochgraf

It's January and you want to vacation in Miami. Your spouse wants to vacation in Montreal. If you meet in the middle, you'll probably wind up in Maryland. And neither one of you is likely to be fully happy with that outcome.

By Lisa Hochgraf

It goes without saying that there has been a lot of snow in the eastern United States this week. Attendees here at CUES Symposium: A CEO/Chairman Exchange in Phoenix have been monitoring not only their likely departures (one had been rescheduled three times as of breakfast this morning), but also whether their credit unions should stay open.

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

Today Ron Shevlin asked the attendees in his session at CUES Symposium: A CEO/Chairman Exchange to be disruptive. Shevlin, senior analyst at Aite Group, Boston, asked them to yell and cheer, to clap and be loud, to make sure that the attendees in the session in the next room would take pause and wonder what was going on.

By Lisa Hochgraf

I’ve been thinking a lot about something Joe Toochin said in his Credit Union Management profile article, after being named the 2009 CUES Director of the Year.

Posted by Ron Jooss

By Shama Campo

Last July I had the opportunity to travel from Trinidad and Tobago to Harvard University for the Advanced Leadership Institute with a group of professional credit union executives. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from the best and share in the development of myself and, by extension, my credit union.

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

If you ask my six-year-old son the question in this post's title, he'll say that "screen time" (when he gets to watch TV or play computer games) is always welcome.

And I have to say that when he and I waited in line for two hours to get his second H1N1 shot in November, I thought bringing my laptop (screen) and a kids' movie was about the best thing I'd ever done.