From Good to Bad Bankers: Lessons Learned from a 50-Year Career in Banking

This book is a selection of articles I have written
about banking and its pathologies over the course of 30 years between 1986 and
2017. The decision to publish them together was originally the idea of a good
friend and colleague who insisted, when I at first refused, that it was time at
this late stage in my banking career for me to set down my thoughts and
observations in writing by way of a legacy. I have sought to avoid articles on
overly topical themes, limiting my selection to writings which were not only of
current interest when they were written but remain so today and may continue to
be so in the future. This book has been planned as a small, straightforward
volume for scholars, business schools, bankers and, above all, supervisors, a
vade mecum based on experience rather than on long research among dusty tomes.