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Thank you very much for the honor to serve as a keynote speaker for your meeting. I commend you on your efforts; what you are doing is very timely. You invited me to be here, and in turn I hope that this presentation will be an invitation to you, to join with me in reflecting on some important currents in the management world at the moment, connections and disconnections between organizations as embodiments of good and/or evil in the world and between corporate presentations and organization research as inspiring and/or accurate. I think that a strong subtext of what I’m saying today is something like the following: Much of what people and organizations present is aimed at persuading others to adopt a certain viewpoint. How we present ourselves and our work, whether as academics for an academic publication or corporate members for a corporate website, annual report or similar publications, has impacts. It affects how much people and organizations are viewed as agents of their action, especially in terms of issues loosely grouped under the heading of corporate social responsibility, or agents of world benefit. It also has impacts on what kinds of actions our readers are moved to undertake