Main description: The efficiency, safety, and soundness of financial markets depend on the operation of core infrastructure--exchanges, central counter-parties, and central securities depositories. How these institutions are governed critically affects their performance. Yet, despite their...

Main description: In business, as in other aspects of life, we learn and grow from the examples set by others. Imitation can lead to innovation. But in order to grow innovatively, how do businesses decide what firms to imitate? And how do they choose what practices to follow? Learning by Example...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PART I. -- INTRODUCTION OF THE THEME: RELEASING THE FULL POTENTIAL OF THE MANAGEMENT TEAM / K. David, Donald -- THE ART OF DELEGATION / D. Clay, Lucius -- MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION / L. Lindseth, Elmer -- MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL / O. Yntema, Theodore -- PART...

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PART I -- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER II. THE ROAD BACK TO SANITY -- CHAPTER III. UNDERSTANDING: A PREREQUISITE OF LEADERSHIP -- CHAPTER IV. THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF INDUSTRY -- CHAPTER V. A DISINTERESTED OBSERVER LOOKS AT INDUSTRY...