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What Boards Miss That Can Tank a Bank

by The Emmerich Group | Sep 4, 2025 | Accountability, Effective Leadership, High Performance, Profitability and Growth

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: most bank boards are strategic liabilities. Long meetings. Thick packets. Zero growth traction. This week’s episode pulls back the curtain on why most banks fail before the planning even starts—and how top-performing banks use their...

What Your Board Doesn’t Know About Performance—And What It’s Costing You

by The Emmerich Group | Aug 28, 2025 | Accountability, Effective Leadership, High Performance, Profitability and Growth

Your Board Might Be the Silent Killer of Performance Your board isn’t broken.They’re just working with a blindfold on—and no one’s bothered to tear it off. They get the numbers, the decks, the updates.But not the strategy.Not the cultural signals.Not the execution...

The Strategic Planning Lie That’s Keeping You Average

by The Emmerich Group | Aug 21, 2025 | Accountability, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Strategic Planning

Burn the To-Do List. Your Strategic Plan Is a Lie.  Let’s stop pretending.  Most bank “strategic plans” are elaborate theater—packed with buzzwords, layered in charts, but built on a foundation of… nothing.  This week, Roxanne Emmerich calls out the sham…...

Fix Performance, Fix Everything—Why Great Banks Don’t Leave Results to Chance

by The Emmerich Group | Aug 14, 2025 | High Performance

Top-tier banks don’t “try harder.” They architect outcomes. Every. Single. Day. They aren’t waiting on lagging reports or motivational posters to spark change. They’ve wired their culture to make performance inevitable—by tying behavior to results, coaching in real...

Community Banks Doing It Right – What the Top 5% Know and Do

by The Emmerich Group | Aug 7, 2025 | High Performance

Most banks are sleepwalking through “change.” They swap out posters. Launch a sales contest. Send staff to a flavor-of-the-month training. Meanwhile, the top 5% of banks are engineering systems so tight, so precise, and so uncopyable… the rest of the industry gets...
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