Michael Keeley – författare

The Financial Institution Bond and Commercial Crime Policy: Principles and Annotations, is a brand new publication that combines into one book the two most popular and useful fidelity books ever published by the ABA - Annotated Financial Institution Bond and Annotated Commercial Crime Insurance Policy. The ambitious combination of these two books into a single, must-have encyclopedia of fidelity law is the result of scholarly contributions from more than four dozen experienced practitioners. It provides lawyers and insurance professionals with a single-volume reference that addresses the legal treatment of both the financial institution bond and commercial crime policy in all federal and state courts, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, making it a key research tool and reference book for every practitioner.The book provides concise and informative summaries of the most important cases addressing key parts of the most-used fidelity insurance policy forms in the industry, along with an introduction and scholarly comments about the provisions. For every-day issues, developing modern issues, and a comprehensive treatment of the provisions of these instruments, Principles and Annotations is a must-have book.

A historical look at the roots of management theory reveals its flaws and offers important lessons for today's leadersFor four thousand years, kings and queens ruled the known world, while management experts—in the guises of sages, clerics, and courtiers of all kinds—told them how to do it. These proto-experts in leadership, ethics, and strategy wrote books describing the perfect prince. In such books, rulers could seek and polish their own reflection, as in a looking glass. These books were called mirrors for princes.Mirrors for Princes documents the clichés of this genre of literature. Typical mirrors taught the same formula, over and over: that people behave badly because of their pursuit of self-interest, which needs to be harnessed to a common goal by the ruler or leader. Eighteenth-century revolutions spelled the demise of princes and books that sought to instruct them. Today, the clichés of mirrors for princes live on in modern mirrors for managers. The rhetoric of common goals and transformational leadership has a pleasing resonance for top managers, affirming their authority, just as it did for kings and queens in mirrors for princes. Keeley's goal is to sensitize readers to these clichés and to provide today's business leaders with the tools to think more critically when reading business books.Mirrors for Princes concludes with advice for writers of management literature, suggesting how organizational theorists and business ethicists might avoid replicating the clichés of mirrors for princes by adopting a social-contract model of organizations.