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How I Built a Bank and Still Remained Poor: Lessons on Ambition, Identity, and the Hidden Cost of Corporate Success
by Roberts, James E.
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How I Built a Bank and Still Remained Poor is a powerful memoir that takes readers inside the hidden realities of multinational corporate banking - not from the executive balcony, but from the engine room where systems, people, and pressure collide.
From restarting at analyst level to delivering mission-critical banking platforms across multiple African markets, James Roberts chronicles a career built on competence, integrity, and relentless delivery. Yet behind professional success lay personal cost - exhaustion, quiet compromises, and the gradual erosion of peace.
This book is both a personal reckoning and a practical guide for modern professionals. It explores how institutions reward output while extracting identity, how ambition can become a trap without ownership, and why financial literacy, networks, and self-awareness matter more than titles.
Written for Gen-Z and millennial professionals, leaders, and anyone navigating complex organizations, this memoir challenges conventional definitions of success and offers a blueprint for building a life that is not only productive - but whole.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Roberts, James E.
- ISBN: 9798994020616
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.19
- Number Of Pages: 80
- Publication Year: 2026
Language:
English, Middle (1100-1500)
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