
Deep institutional experience isn't enough for the job ahead. New thinking alone isn't either. Your next CEO has to bring both. In this Banking Insights episode, Jim Marous argues the job now resembles a barbell. One end is credit judgment, relationships known by name, and having run the institution through a cycle where things went badly. The other is fluency in data and AI, command of partnerships, and a temperament that can carry bets, some of which are supposed to fail.