You don't have to be psychopathic to work in the City... but it helps

You don't have to be psychopathic to work in the City... but it helps

The perfect CV? 60 per cent genius and 40 per cent psychopath, says author and former ‘Cityboy’ Geraint Anderson in today’s Notebook Do psychopaths make better bankers? When I was plying my trade in the Square Mile (1996-2008) there was a persistent rumour that Goldman Sachs sought recruits who’d ‘probably been bullied at school’. The theory was that these poor souls possessed the perfect combination of insecurity and a seething desire for reven…