Absent Management in Banking

Chapter 1 Introduction: Not Managed at All—How the Idea for This Book Occurred and What It Is About

Chapter 2 The Medici and Renaissance Complexity: How the Challenges of Renaissance Banking Finally Defeated the First Multinational Bank

Chapter 3 Rothschild, the Largest Bank in the World: How Multinational Family Ownership Overcame Nearly All Management Complexities When Others Failed

Chapter 4 Less Regulation Means Greater Complexity: How Looser Bank Regulation Allowed Faster Growth, Greater Complexity and Contributed to Absent Management in Banking

Chapter 5 Complexity from Growth: Territory and Size—How Absent Management Occurred Through Growth by State, Country and Sheer Size

Chapter 6 Complexity from Growth in Lines of Business: How Absent Management Occurred When Different Types of Banking Were Merged

Chapter 7 The Absence of Incentives to Manage: How the Wrong Incentives Resulted in Absent Management

Chapter 8 Producer Managers: How Continued Focus on Banking Resulted in Absent Management

Chapter 9 Bank Failures Cause Crisis: How Absent Management in Banks Can Cause a Crisis

Chapter 10 Bank Failure: Triggering Crisis—How Absent Management in Banks Triggered the 2008 Financial Crisis

Chapter 11 Bank Failures Cause a Global Crisis: How the Complexities of United States Mortgage Securities Devastated Banks and Made the Banking Crises Global

Chapter 12 The Cost of Financial Crisis: How Absent Management in Banking Became Costly

Chapter 13 What Has Changed: How Little Has Changed in Terms of Complexity, Producer Managers and Absent Management in Banking

Chapter 14 Conclusion