Jim Marous

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5,037 appearances 35 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Aug

Jim Marous’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 35 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 14.

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Banking Transformed with Jim Marous · Why Your Next CEO Needs More Than Tenure · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

Just nine percent have identified a CEO successor along with a timeline and a plan of action. voice-verified

A year earlier, it was 17%. voice-verified

Readiness actually went backwards while the clock ran on fast forward. voice-verified

So the industry named its biggest gap, build a scorecard that doesn't measure it, and mostly hasn't chosen anybody. voice-verified

That's weighing on only one end of the barbell, and it's called preparation. voice-verified

One end of the barbell is what you voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And it still matters. voice-verified

Credit judgment, knowing the commercial relationships by name, and having run the place through a cycle where things went badly. voice-verified

None of that got less valuable because of technology. voice-verified

The other end is voice-verified

Is harder to hire and easier to fake. voice-verified

Enough fluency in data and AI to allocate capital when the payback isn't certain. voice-verified

Enough command of partnerships that a choosing AI. voice-verified

solution provider is a leadership skill rather than a procurement function, and a temperament that can carry a portfolio where some bets are supposed to fail, close to the opposite of what credit training teaches. voice-verified

Boards often settle for the compromised candidate with decent experience and decent ability to deal with the future. voice-verified

It looks balanced. voice-verified

It's just light on both ends. voice-verified

And one person rarely holds both ends well. voice-verified

So the commitment to carrying the weight falls on the team and the CEO's job is to hold the ends together rather than to embody them. voice-verified

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