How Bankers Think: Inside Commercial Banking's Hidden Curriculum

You knew the ratios. You had read the guides. And ten minutes in, you realised the senior banker across the table was not testing what you knew — she was testing how you thought."e;How do I get my money back, with interest, across cycles?"e; — the one question every senior banker carries into every file. Nobody teaches the thinking behind it, because the people who have it learned it the slow way,...