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Last Word
A Conversation With Phillip Green
Phillip Green is a believer in the power of a strong culture, and with good reason. Cullen/Frost Bankers, the $53 billion San Antonio-based bank where Green serves as chairman and CEO, was the only top 10 bank in Texas to survive a statewide banking system collapse in the 1980s. As a young accountant, Green watched then-CEO Tom Frost, great-grandson of the bank’s founder, navigate the crisis by staying true to the bank’s mission and values. He’s made those lessons the foundation for a finely tuned culture, reinforced in-house by a “Blue Book” of core values that’s required reading for all…
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WRITTEN BY
John Engen
Contributing Writer
John Engen is a contributing writer for Bank Director. He has more than 30 years of experience as a business journalist, writing for a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press. He graduated with a degree in economics and international relations from the University of Minnesota and did his post-graduate work in Asian studies at the University of Hawai’i.