Meet the Linksters

By Meagan Johnson Credit unions are well aware of the importance of attracting Generation X and Y consumers to develop a younger clientele that will fuel growth into the future. There is another prime target market on the horizon that will soon populate your membership base and employee roster: the Linksters.
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Payments P&L

By Scott Hodgins

My clients often wonder if they are driving the payments train or if that whoosh sound they hear is the train passing them by. We’ve heard about the massive changes in the payments world that are either here already or rapidly approaching: mobile wallets, prepaid debit, real time P2P payments, Durbin, etc.

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How to Keep Your Strategy Current

By Lisa Hochgraf

This resident of the Rochester, N.Y., area knows a Kodak engineer who used to get really super excited about making beautiful reds on traditional camera film.

Trouble was, at the same time this engineer and his team were perfecting a longstanding technology, Kodak's film market share was declining rapidly and the company was losing in the new digital camera space.

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Knitting Together Your Team

By Lisa Hochgraf

My editorial colleague Theresa Witham is quite a knitter. Check out the photo of Theresa and her son Henry out in the snow wearing hand-knits!

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Creativity: Stroke of Genuis or Result of Hard Work?

By Lisa Hochgraf

People often ask how I manage to get up at 5:45 a.m. at least once a week to go swim laps. The answer is simple: "It makes my life better." By improving both my mood for the day and my sleep for the night, my regular early morning swims make me a more capable editor (and parent).

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Inspired CU Leaders

By Theresa Witham

Each August, I have the great pleasure of reading and editing profiles of the CUES Next Top Credit Union Exec Top 15 Finalists. These 35-and-under CU employees are a diverse bunch, but they all have a passion for their work and the industry. Reading the profiles, I feel inspired and energized. And I am frequently impressed by each finalist’s well-thought-out credit union project.

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