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Author Amernic, Joel H. (Joel Henry), 1946-

Title CEO-speak : the language of corporate leadership / Joel Amernic, Russell Craig.

Publication Info. Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006.
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages : portrait)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Why the words of business leaders matter -- Hyperbole and delusion at Enron -- Framing Anderson -- The gates to Microsoft : exploiting web sites -- AOLTimeWarner : claiming the internet kingdom -- IBM and the privileges of an internet soapbox -- Constructing Jack Welch, GE's corporate chieftain incarnate -- Disney's narrative as personality prism -- Nortel's "Remarkable" letter -- Three tenors in perfect harmony -- Creating "North America's Railroad" -- Towards greater accountability for CEO-speak -- Appendices: Skilling and Lay's last letter to shareholders of Enron -- Remarks of Joseph F. Berardino, managing partner/CEO of Anderson, to the US House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, 12 December 2001 -- AOLTimeWarner's internet policy statement -- General Electric's 1991 CEO letter to shareholders -- Letter to stockholders, 1940 Walt Disney productions' annual report -- Letter to stockholders, 1941 Walt Disney productions' annual report.
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Subject Chief executive officers -- Language -- Case studies.
Chief executive officers.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Discourse analysis -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
Discourse analysis -- Social aspects.
Corporate culture -- Case studies.
Corporate culture.
Indexed Term JSTOR-DDA
Chief executive officers Case studies
Business communication Case studies
Communication in management Case studies
Corporate culture Case studies
Multi-User.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Craig, Russell (Lecturer in business)
Other Form: Print version: 0773530371 9780773530379
ISBN 9780773575592 (electronic book)
0773575596 (electronic book)
9780773530379
0773530371
9780773533202
0773533206