Bank. Credit Union. Customer. Member. Not-for-profit. Profit. Taxed. Not Taxed. Twiddle-dee. Twiddle-dum.
Sure, there are differences but really at the end of the day? People are still people, banks and credit unions, operationally, work in many of the same ways, and their IT systems are damn near identical from one another. So why not try to learn from one another?
This came across my feeds (Thx Brent!) and somehow, this ‘epic battle of finance’ came into my head. (Sad, eh?)
[The researchers] surveyed 180 Bosnian Muslims about their attitudes towards Bosnian Serbs in the wake of the earlier conflict. They found that Bosnian Muslims who had more Serb friends and who identified more with a sense of being “Bosnian,” rather than “Bosnian Muslim” or “Bosniak,” also tended to show more empathy for Serbs as a group, to be more trusting of Serbs, and to see Serbs as more varied — all of which predicted greater levels of forgiveness and more positive attitudes towards the Serbs.
This pattern is consistent with what’s known as the “contact hypothesis” in social psychology, which states that more high quality contact between groups promotes intergroup reconciliation. - Reference
Interesting. More time together helps mend fences, not less. Agreeing to disagree, perhaps, but still willing to listen and learn from one another can still be a benefit to all parties. Hoping to have some of this discussion for our BarCampBankDallas event coming up in a couple of weeks. Come on everybody, let’s hug it out!
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nancy (aka citizen banker)
June 10th, 2008
lol - and then there’s my bank, owned by a credit union. If it can be conceived it can be achieved