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... thousands of articles, checklists, tip sheets, sales letters, and more! Communications Marketing Customer Service Planning Finance/Accounting Risk Management Human Resources Selling Legal and E&O Technology Life/Financial Services Glossaries Management Resources & Links Categories Popular Recent All Back Banks, Investment Firms, And Insurance Agencies: It's The Culture!4/30/2013 10:42:47 PM by CompleteMarkets Editor , Michael Manes This content has not been rated yet. BANKS, INVESTMENT FIRMS, AND INSURANCE AGENCIES: IT'S THE CULTURE! by ... successfully, one must understand that it's not about products, process or technology. It's the culture, stupid! Culture includes the organizational personality, history, personnel behavior styles, values, compensations systems, attitudes, etc. Simply put: Traditional bankers, traditional investment advisors, and traditional agents are all dinosaurs. Mating dinosaurs doesn't result in a dynamic hybrid. To achieve success and the tremendous potential created by the consolidation of the financial services industry, these dinosaurs must be genetically engineered-not cloned-before spawning the next generation. To succeed, ... consolidation of industries must build on the strengths of the past and engineer out any weaknesses. Participants must understand the histories of investment services, insurance, and banking before they can make any plans or take any actions. BANKING INDUSTRY Banks have been regulated since the Great Depression. Government regulation has fostered sameness in bank products and services. True competition between banks has been limited-at the expense of customer service. The regulator has become more important than the customer. The customer doesn't expect and cannot obtain vastly different services from individual banks. ...
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