Leadership vernacular as a communication device

This articles proposes that the leadership role for the future is one of teaching organizational members to think about their thinking to solve complex problems. Organizational members must realize how they create reality, and how they can go about changing it. They must come to understand that one's thinking and subsequent actions create one's problems, and problems can no longer be solved with the same mentality which created them. The article offers a number of specific communicative devices for the leader as teacher. Language for leaders includes questioning, modelling dialogue, using metaphor, and telling stories. The way in which these communicative devices function as leader‐teacher tools is explained.