Tim Hindle

Preface My hope is that this book will instruct and entertain, not necessarily in that order. Banking and finance are subjects with their own dialect, a dialect that makes opaque the layman's view of quite simple subjects. Start by remembering that bankers are little more than sophisticated...

PREFACE 1 "'HE disturbing story of Asil Nadir and Polly Peck, the company he founded and built up in the 1980s into one of the largest corporations in Britain, will remain among the most bizarre business mysteries of all time. In the three years following Asil Nadir's first arrest in December...

iNTRODUCnuiN I Introduction Keeping Up with Change In today's fast-moving business world, organizations are constantly evolving, and the role of the manager is becoming ever more diverse. Many organizations have undergone radical change, often prompted by economic pressure and the twin demands...