A Hero For All
There’s nothing like meeting your hero. For some, that might equate to a football player or a musician or maybe a politician — a well-known celebrity type, whose mere physical presence is immediately recognized by all. For a governance geek like me, heroes are fewer and farther in between. But they do exist and when…
Read MoreEffective Communications in the Board Room
A great number of the governance challenges that we come across in the work that our firm undertakes with credit unions can be boiled down to matters of communications. Are your board members crossing over into day-to-day operations? Well…have their roles and responsibilities been clearly defined, updated and effectively communicated to them? Are there two…
Read MoreGood Governance: Two Of The Five Top Questions Board Chairs Have
1. Should chairs vote? 2. What’s the best way to ask a director to move on? Quantum Governance recently had the privilege of spending a few days with nearly 100 credit union board chairs, vice-chairs and others when we conducted the Board Chair Development Seminar for CUES in Amelia Island, Fla. In this article, we put forth…
Read MoreGood Governance: The Origin Of Civility
Be sure to disagree in an agreeable way. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the word civility. And unless you live under a rock, you can likely understand why . Frankly there’s a significant lack of it in the public sector. It concerns me, and my guess is that it concerns you, no matter…
Read MoreTell Me Something I Don’t Know: What You Need to Know About Assessments
We don’t know what we don’t know. It’s such an obvious thing to state, and yet we would suggest this simple statement of fact may be the key to the future of your credit union. Often our clients approach us with a sense that although their credit union has a healthy balance sheet and continues to…
Read MoreGood Governance: Who’s on Your Board Today? Tomorrow?
Data from our new report, The State of Credit Union Governance, 2018, finds that the majority of credit unions feel pretty good about who’s currently on their boards—but are much less sure about the future.
Read MoreThe State of Credit Union Governance, 2018: Six Key Findings
We’ve been regularly surveying credit union board members, supervisory or audit committee members, CEOs and senior staff for the past five years. And for as many years as we’ve been surveying them, we’ve dreamed about the notion of pulling together a “state of the state” of credit union governance report – both to forward our own understanding…
Read More5 Data-Driven Recommendations for Governance Success
The State of Credit Union Governance, 2018 is the culmination of five years of data collected from credit unions across the United States and a dream long held by everyone at Quantum Governance. The research yielded a number of key findings which we’ve shared previously on our blog. And now we can also share some…
Read MoreA Case for Reaching Higher; Musings on The Federal Reserve’s Proposed Guidance on Supervisory Expectation for Boards of Directors
This past August, the Federal Reserve published its Proposed Guidance on Supervisory Expectation for Boards of Directors (“Proposed Guidelines”) and invited comment and discussion on the subject of better performance though better governance – a topic near and dear to us at Quantum Governance. So, as we ourselves have mused on the pros of the…
Read MoreBeyond Ethics
For many years, my focus was on ethics – particularly organizational ethics. As an undergraduate at Georgetown University, I majored in philosophy and minored in psychology. My father thought it was imprudent to follow such a course of study, but I persisted. As such, I studied many of history’s greatest ethicists. I went on to law…
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