Recommended Reading - Mastering management: managing in a downturn, FT

The Financial Times (registration req.) is running a fascinating and apropos Special Report on Managing in a Downturn.   The Report is broken into a series of parts.  If you are a manager or you are examining the management of a specific company the below stories are worth a read.

1. Time for managers to stand and deliver
   
2. Keeping the global economy afloat
3. Seizing the upside of a downturn
4. The perfect storm  
5. Managing fluctuations  
6. Japan: Hubris, denial and the loss of confidence  
7. Scandinavia: Failed banks, state control and a rapid recovery  
   
8. Lessons from the 1997 Asian economic crisis  
   

Check them out.