Management and language : the manager as a practical author / Managers as practical authors : everyday conversations for action / Using narrative and telling stories / Full of characters : identity and talk in practical authoring / leader as a practical narrator : leadership as the art of translating / logic of message design in organisational argument / Authoring as a collaborative process thought communication / Conversations and the authoring of change / All in a knot of one anothers' labours : action learning as joint practical authoring/ critical conversation between author managers and management authors