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Leadership Metaphors in Public and Organizational Life

Leadership metaphors are the lenses through which we interpret the world. The Action Wheel framework identifies six critical metaphors for leadership. Each leadership metaphor represents one of the Action Wheel dimensions of leadership as developed in Dr. Robert Terry's book Authentic Leadership: Courage In Action.

Leadership Metaphors Each leadership metaphor is linked to one dimension of the Action Wheel and opens a windows onto a leadership reality. They identify the unknown from the known, the novel from the familiar. They link the well established with the less well understood.

A metaphor, in short, tells us something new about reality. “A tractor is a machine” is a literal statement about a direct perception. “Life is a machine” is a metaphor. The metaphor anchors a direct experience to something that goes well beyond it.

Different metaphors yield different realities, resulting in different perceptions of what is really going on. Is a business’s orienting metaphor "journey" or is it something else---say a belief that a business is an organic system? Very different ideas and actions will arise from different metaphors.

Learn more about the six metaphors for leadership:

Metaphors for Leadership Ebook
by Bob Terry

Leadership Metaphors by Robert Terry Robert Terry states: "The six metaphors I have selected are the ones that I believe are shaping current leadership and public policy debates and that I believe ought to shape those debates. Ethical principles and metaphors live in a reciprocal relationship. Principles legitimate actions; metaphors direct and interpret actions.

When our ethical principles are known, we can make preliminary judgments about appropriate metaphors. However, metaphors themselves enrich the ethical principles, bring them to life, and trace out their significance for action. The metaphors I have selected also relate to and inform the generic features of action."

Leadership Metaphors is available as a downloadable ebook. Includes Discussion Guide.

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