... four perspectives needs to be considered from the perspective of leadership. Findings – The paper views leadership as “a Cloud.” It brings new insights to a social and organizational analysis of leaders today. The metaphorical language is creative in the formative accompaniment of the Millennials...

...Charles F. Abel; Arthur J. Sementelli Purpose Aims to consider what the best metaphor or set of metaphors might be in the organizational change process. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual discussion and approach are taken. Findings Metaphors have proven to be highly effective aids...

...Adrian Carr Raises the issue of metaphorical thinking in organization theory and management development and in doing so warns of the dangers of framing our thinking through metaphor. Raises the notion of the learning organization in such a context and discusses some challenges and implications...