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  "slug": "ceo-quote-contradiction",
  "name": "CEO quote contradiction",
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  "description": "You reproduce management's own words — verbatim, with source and date — and\nthen place them next to the outcome that contradicts them. The CEO built\nthe rope; you put it around their own neck.",
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  "whenToUse": "When management credibility is the lever",
  "whyItWorks": "- **Maximum credibility**: no adjective you could write is as damning as the\n  target's own prior statement.\n- **No rebuttal path**: management can't argue they didn't say it.\n- **It forces accountability onto a person**, not an institution — even if\n  you aren't explicitly naming a villain elsewhere.\n- **Reporters amplify it**. A CEO-quote-contradiction slide is quotable,\n  which means it lands in WSJ/FT/Bloomberg coverage.",
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  "bodyDocSlug": "pattern-ceo-quote-contradiction",
  "bodyDocTitle": "Pattern: CEO quote contradiction",
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  "version": 1,
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  "examples": [
    "This slide compares two different statements from the CEO, highlighting a contradiction in their messaging.",
    "quote: \"On or about March 19, 1990, Franklin reported to Schwartzberg that preliminary financial statements showed that LA Gear's first quarter GPM was 34.98%... Schwartzberg instructed Franklin to proceed to alter the i",
    "The slide contains a quote from the CEO."
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    "score": 71,
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