To all of you who were taken down at Citi: If they must unite to bring you down, realize that your power is far greater than they would like to admit. Know that in your bones. Let them…
Story 436, I don’t think they are asserting that women over 50 are less good than younger people. They are saying that they don’t have senior work for qualified personnel. What’s in the hamper is fit for younger…
The last post 450 on narcissism prompted me to share this article on abuse culture because one doesn’t go without the other. Such people are driven by a grandiose sense of entitlement and power that feeds on the…
Story, 450: Your comment about being undermined by ex-colleagues reminds me of something that happened to a friend. She was a PhD/executive in the life sciences sector in Scandinavia. A few months after starting at a large public…
I spent my career in a technical specialist field, much of it at major financial firms and hedge funds. I was often the only woman in the room. Over the years, I was worn down by a thousand…
Story 447, Citi calls moving U.S. Retail Banking under Wealth a “refinement.” I’d call it the third redraw of the same lines in a few years. First, consumer banking sat under the old global structure. Then the five-business…
Story 446. You know it. Saying that “blatant cronyism and nepotism were the order of the day, with personal relationships and loyalty taking precedence over competence, accountability, and basic standards of conduct” barely even scratches the surface. It…
Dear Story 442: I’ve been thinking about your post and the comment you made about Cards’ revenue. Moving Retail Banking into Wealth last year gave [REDACTED] a bigger business, a more attractive P&L, and made it so that…
Story 444: I am surprised there aren’t more stories here about the egregious misconduct of the Tech & Data team. When I was there, I saw things that made my head spin. I submitted more than one ethics…
Today’s commentary from Citi’s Head of Wealth on CNBC painted the deliberate slowdown of their wealth AI agent rollout as a strategic, methodical choice. That measured pace is code for poor execution and a stark fear of a…