Comments on: BarCampBankSeattle (BCBS) and the need for tattoos http://tinfoiling.com/2007/07/23/barcampbankseattle-bcbs-and-the-need-for-tattoos/ The mental pursuit of things material and immaterial eventually transcribed. Everything originates from Burnaby Mountain. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:26:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark http://tinfoiling.com/2007/07/23/barcampbankseattle-bcbs-and-the-need-for-tattoos/#comment-621 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:46:35 +0000 http://tinfoiling.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/barcampbankseattle-bcbs-and-the-need-for-tattoos/#comment-621 Also, thinking more about the “responsibility of membership” brought me back to this excerpt from an old SVN article

[In How to Win Friends and Influence People] Carnegie suggests that if you want to make someone your friend, then you should ask them to do something for you. It sounds counter-intuitive, but the fog is lifted when you think about it: When someone does something for you they are vested in your success. They want to see you succeed because they have a chip in the game.

Are there ways these thoughts about friendship can be applied to CU membership?

Just a thought…

]]> By: Mark http://tinfoiling.com/2007/07/23/barcampbankseattle-bcbs-and-the-need-for-tattoos/#comment-620 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:36:46 +0000 http://tinfoiling.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/barcampbankseattle-bcbs-and-the-need-for-tattoos/#comment-620 Gene,

I’ve got to say, as someone who straddles the fence in the arena of the CU “movement”, I was very surprised and a little disappointed that no one at BCBS could spout off the 7 principles. (Which, until that day, I had no clue existed.)

Now, I do have a feeling you knew most of them, and it was definitely an environment with little room for error, but shouldn’t this be required memorization for all CU people? (I’m sure we can come up with a clever acronym if needed.)

How can a CU as an organization expect to convey these principles if they don’t even know them?

I look forward to hearing more discussion about these principles and what they mean for the CU “movement” and the daily life of CU members.

]]> By: tinfoiling http://tinfoiling.com/2007/07/23/barcampbankseattle-bcbs-and-the-need-for-tattoos/#comment-618 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:38:08 +0000 http://tinfoiling.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/barcampbankseattle-bcbs-and-the-need-for-tattoos/#comment-618 I think any ‘expertise’ needs to have valid questions asked of it answered. There needs to be a balance here and that is what is not taking place. Everything is left to the experts. Remember we are talking about members who also have the title ‘owner’.
And here I go again. LINEUPS. Does anyone really want them? Ask the members and they say No but where is the expertise is getting rid of the lineups?

]]> By: nancy (aka money coach) http://tinfoiling.com/2007/07/23/barcampbankseattle-bcbs-and-the-need-for-tattoos/#comment-617 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:16:36 +0000 http://tinfoiling.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/barcampbankseattle-bcbs-and-the-need-for-tattoos/#comment-617 ok, I just know I’m about to get run out of town for this, but … for five years I was in a women’s investment club, and chaired it most of the time. We rocked! Made solid returns, and enjoyed the experience. But here’s the thing. It was democratic (majority vote), but there was at least one person, maybe two, who never did really pick up the ball and run with it in terms of ‘getting’ how to evaluate a company. And on occasion, several in the group would be inspired about a company for various reasons, even if it didn’t meet our criteria, and vote to purchase it. Sometimes it played out well, as often as not it didn’t.

So … is there a place for ‘expertise’? and for ‘expertise’ to win out over democracy? Would we REALLY want credit union members having direct say on complex issues? Would they be informed and qualified to vote? (I include myself in the membership; some decisions are way beyond what I could comfortably handle). OK, say your piece…

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