The role of banks Large-scale economic and financial events provide an opportunity to re-think basic assumptions – that is, once we get through the period of crisis management. But it takes a while to get there, and reactions to financial crises consist, first, of strategic containment, and then, of developing techniques of prevention.
Because it is only the results that count and that confirm or dispute the appropriateness of decisions made. At the same time, the results are the only grounds for judging one’s work and the best indicator of how one is likely to work in the future.