Absent Management in Banking : How Banks Fail and Cause Financial Crisis

1. Introduction - Not Managed at All: How the Idea for this Book Occurred and What it is About -- 2. The Medici and Renaissance Complexity: How the Challenges of Renaissance Banking Finally Defeated the First Multinational Bank -- 3. Rothschild, the Largest Bank in the World: How Multinational Family Ownership Overcame Nearly All Management Complexities When Others Failed -- 4. Less Regulation Means Greater Complexity: How Looser Bank Regulation Allowed Faster Growth, Greater Complexity and Contributed to Absent Management in Banking -- 5. Complexity from Growth - Territory and Size: How Absent Management Occurred through Growth by State, Country and Sheer Size -- 6. Complexity from Growth in Lines of Business: How Absent Management Occurred When Different Types of Banking Were Merged -- 7. The Absence of Incentives to Manage: How the Wrong Incentives Resulted in Absent Management -- 8. Producer Managers: How Continued Focus on Banking Resulted in Absent Management -- 9. Bank Failures Cause Crisis: How Absent Management in Banks Can Cause a Crisis -- 10. Bank Failure - Triggering Crisis: How Absent Management in Banks Triggered the 2008 Financial Crisis -- 11. Bank Failures Cause a Global Crisis: How the Complexities of United States Mortgage Securities Devastated Banks and Made Banking Crises Global -- 12. The Cost of Financial Crisis: How Absent Management in Banking Became Costly -- 13. What Has Changed: How Little Has Changed in Terms of Complexity, Producer Managers and Absent Management in Banking -- 14. Conclusion.