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\"A scrappy young banker accepts a dare and is thrust into an out-of-sequence world. Laced with corporate intrigue and unexpected romance, this innovative thriller challenges assumptions about the nature of reality\"--Provided by publisher.

Purpose - This paper aims to open up dialogue between several popular non-fiction books written on Lehman Brothers - and its chief executive officer (CEO) Dick Fuld in particular - and the academic literature on leadership and organizational culture. Design/methodology/approach - Vicky Ward's book The Devil's Casino is examined closely to understand the influence of the bank's CEO on the organizational culture. Findings - A notable instance of coupling is highly recurrent in the book, linking the personality of Dick Fuld with his top management team and Lehman Brothers' employees. Originality/value - Focusing on the CEO's personality, this article engages with the academic literature allowing for a distinct problematization of the issue, and a potential resolution: the importance of changes in leadership to trigger an evolution in Wall Street's culture.

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Miser's New Notes and the Victorian Sensation Novel: Plotting the Magic of Paper Money Tamara Silvia Wagner What makes a murderous miser in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensation novel Aurora Floyd (1862-63) is \"a roU of crisp notes: so crisp, so white and new, that, in their unsulUed freshness, they looked more Uke notes on the Bank of Elegance than the circulating medium of this busy, money-making nation\" (230). It is not simply money that makes him kill, not its exchange-value, not even the allure of glittering gold. Instead, it is wads of paper, and the very magicality, at least in the eyes of an imbecile stable-boy who, in his youth, feU on his head, that can transform them into something of such importance, into something that makes him commit murder. Money may not be intrinsicaUy dirty and start out in a neat, crisp, unsullied freshness that is corrupted only when handled, but if this coins a startling innocuousness , it also capitalises on paper money's lack of any intrinsic value. Not aU that glitters may be gold, but hoarding banknotes can only be, Braddon's novel makes abundandy clear, the desire of a madman or an imbecile. If this condemnation of miserliness abides by mid-Victorian moral economies so closely as to recycle a much circulated theme, the banknotes figure in a pecuHarly fascinating way that first invests in and ultimately runs away with an expected plot. Only if they re-enter the market, can they be traced; their numbers mapping out the novel's detective-plot. The fruits of laborious extortion , they kiU in more than one way and, more significandy stiU, do away with established inheritance-plots. A banker's meticulousness catches a thief (and murderer) in a new twist of mid-century cultural myths of money that strikingly redirects Victorian representations Victorian Review (2005)79 T. Silvia Wagner of bankers and banknotes. Objects of desire, intrinsically innocuous, and clues to a sensation novel's mysteries - the notes become Aurora Floyds plot. Money is not as interesting as a theme as it is as the driving -force of the novel's speculation on the credit economy's narrative potentials. The novel genre invested heavily in changing financial fictions, but its interest in ways of working them out in new forms achieved new poignancy in the second half of the nineteenth century. If emotional investment and, conversely, moral bankruptcy became tied up with fiscal exchanges, in a replication of moral discourses on credit and debt, the very intangibiUty of paper money also formed a pool of plots. Sensation fiction of the 1860s was peculiarly interested in indeterminacy, snubbed as it was for its \"effervescence\" (94), as a hack-writer in one of Braddon's most self-reflexive sensation novels, Charlotte's Inheritance (1868), puts it, as he hunches, miser-like, over a stack of papers made up of his own writing and the deposit receipts he wishes to turn it into: \"How he gloated over the deposit receipts in the stillness of the night [and] looked at them, as if the poor little bits of printed paper had been specimens of virgin ore from some gold mine newly discovered by [himself]\" (93-94). This juxtaposition of true gold, or virgin ore, and paper fictions flows through Braddon's representation of speculators of various kinds. In Aurora Floyd, it propels the plot. The novel revolves on financial speculation as a supplier of new plots, new or redefined villains, new benchmarks for moral economies. It shows this perhaps most compellingly when it dismisses a bystander's gloomy philosophising on \"unlucky speculators \" as \"dreary platitudes and worn-out sentimentalities\" that only bespeak his chagrin over being \"scratched for the matrimonial stakes\" (151). The novel engenders, I shall argue, a remarkable redirection of \"paper fictions\" that fascinatingly drive narrative speculation on a murderous miser. The miser's new notes brilliantly bring out this fascination with the changing currencies of paper and the ways in which it puts a new spin on inheritance-plots. All the papers circulating in Aurora Floyd - distorted newspaper reports, anonymous letters, a marriage-certifi80volume 31 number 2 The Miser's New Notes...

The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an old woman dying of a brain tumour, a family of Pakistani shop owners, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive an anonymous postcard one day with a simple message: we want what you have. Who is behind it? What do they want? As the mystery of the postcards deepens, the world around Pepys Road is turned upside down by the financial crash and all of its residents' lives change beyond recognition over the course of the next year.

\"When an old acquaintance reaches out to Stone Barrington requesting assistance, the job seems easy enough. She needs an expert in an esoteric field, someone with both the knowledge and careful dexterity to solve a puzzle. But the solution to one small problem blows the lid open on a bigger scandal going back decades, and involving numerous prominent New Yorkers who would prefer the past stay buried. With this explosive information in-hand, Stone Barrington is caught between a rock and a hard place, his only options either to play it safe to the detriment of others, or to see justice done and risk fatal exposure. But when it comes to Stone Barrington, danger is usually just around the corner ... so he may as well throw caution to the wind\"-- Provided by publisher.

According to Insley, Butterly told her the staff began asking such questions in October. \"Child health care professionals,\" the October report reads, \"can and should provide effective leadership in efforts to prevent gun violence, injury and death.\"

Henry M. Paulson, chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, apologized last week for unguarded remarks he made to the effect that the firm could stand to lay off more employees. He told an investors' conference that in almost every one of Goldman's businesses, there are 15% to 20% of the people who add 80% of the value in terms of their efforts and experience. In his apology to angry Goldman Sachs employees, Paulson said his earlier comment was \"insensitive and glib,\" although he did not say it was untrue. Still in doubt: Is Paulson part of the 20% or the 80%?

The Vulture Fund by Stephen W. Frey.