Management and Language

Introduction/Management and Language: The Manager as a Practical Author/PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE/Managers as Practical Authors/Everyday Conversations for Action/PART TWO: DEVELOPING AND UNDERSTANDING THE STORY/Using Narrative and Telling Stories/Full of Characters/Identity and Talk in Practical Authoring/Visual Media and the Construction of Meaning/PART THREE: DEVELOPING THE AUTHOR'S POSITION/The Leader as a Practical Narrator/Leadership as the Art of Translating/The Logic of Message Design in Organisational Argument/Authoring as a Collaborative Process through Communication/PART FOUR: REWRITING THE SCRIPT RESCRIPTING THE AUTHOR/Conversations and the Authoring of Change/All in a Knot of One Anothers' Labours/Action Learning as Joint Practical Authoring/A Critical Conversation Between Author Managers and Management Authors