by Greg Martin | Oct 10, 2019 | Strategic Banking
Have you ever seen a time travel movie? I am a child of the 80’s so my favorite time travel movie was Back to the Future, staring Michael J. Fox (1 million points to 1st person to comment with the name of high school). Honestly, Back to the Future Part II was my...
by Greg Martin | Oct 1, 2019 | Book Review
“In any negotiation, it is not how well you speak, but how well you listen that determines your success.” This is just one of the key points that I learned from Chris Voss in his book, Never Split the Difference. Chris is one of the preeminent practitioners and...
by Greg Martin | Sep 24, 2019 | Strategic Banking
It has been said that our brains are so amazingly designed that a single phrase or name can unlock memories that we have not thought about in years. Let’s test this out. What do you think of when I say “I’m Paul Harvey, and now…..”? If you are like me, you immediately...
by Greg Martin | Sep 17, 2019 | Leadership
Have you ever created something out of nothing? I once had a friend who was a builder and he had the amazing ability to take a vision in his head and bring it into the world. Much of the time it was without plans. Rick had the gift of vision and the ability to...
by Greg Martin | Sep 10, 2019 | Strategic Banking
When I was about 16 years old, I became obsessed with basketball trading cards. This was during the time of the gold-medal winning Dream Team 2 during the 1996 summer Olympic Games (1,000,000 points to the 1st person to comment with the silver-medal team during the...