Pub. 12 2022 Issue 3

Linda Cohen, the founder of Linda Cohen Consulting, is a professional keynote speaker known as The Kindness Catalyst. A consultant since 2012, Linda has a blog on her website (https://lindacohenconsulting.com). She has written two books; 1,000 Mitzvahs in 2011 and The Economy of Kindness in 2021.

Kindness is a soft skill. Since kindness can be hard to teach, measure or master, many people dismiss it as a nonessential nicety that won’t make or break your business. They value other capitalist-oriented skills more, such as ambition, grit and skill.

The Graduate School of Banking at Colorado (GSBC) is proud to announce the graduation of Howie Jorajuria of 1st Bank Yuma in Yuma, AZ, from its state-of-the-art graduate school of banking program.

This past spring, the U.S. bond market, where many community banks are invested, flashed a common recession warning: the yield curve briefly inverted, with short-term debt paying more than longer-term loans.

The 2022 legislative session has adjourned … finally. The session dragged on, as expected, while the legislators and Governor hammered out a state budget. The budget was complicated by a massive revenue surplus, very narrow Republican majorities (not a single vote to spare), and election-year politics. The goal of a 100-day session was quickly abandoned, and ultimately the session dragged on to 166 days, just one week short of the new fiscal year.