At first glance, it seems every square inch of surface space in KC Moore’s office at Central Bank of Missouri is covered by red file folders bulging with documents.
“I know I couldn’t work like that,” said Rob Volker, the bank’s president and CEO. But while the piles are “intimidating” to Volker, he said Moore knows exactly what is in each of those folders.
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