Common Themes Among High-Performing Credit Unions

Successful CUs differ in size, location, FOM and charter, but tend to make the same five strategic moves.

By Jeff Rendel | October 11, 2021 at 12:14 PM

Over the past three years, my first-hand strategic consulting engagements with more than 100 high-performing credit unions revealed several uncommon and common themes. The uncommon? Size, location, field of membership and charter. No two credit unions were alike – a testament to the localized and unique superpowers of credit unions. The common? Read on.

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