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“Motivation is more than mere money. Bankers should concentrate on laying a solid foundation for customers, not focusing on making quick cash,” he said.

Or to put it another way, it is about value. The reason for existing must be that you add value in some way to your customers. And value is linked to action – what you do. Al Gini says “ethics is a verb” and he is right. You cannot just talk or teach ethics, you also need to act and behave differently.

There is no change to the game possible. We are all living on the corpses of our ancestors. There is nothing left for us to do but cannibalize each other. Worse than a train wreck, we are all stranded, and uncaring; some are just more violent…