Hi Luke - yes I saw Dave Snowden's post too, he seems very angry about metaphor ;-) Gareth Morgan warned of the folly of thinking about one metaphor being THE lens through which to understand organisations 30+ years ago... I totally agree on your point regarding "holding the space between multiple, often competing, perspectives" there is something valuable about standing in the soft shadows between clear meaning to allow new understandings to emerge
Hi Luke - yes I saw Dave Snowden's post too, he seems very angry about metaphor ;-) Gareth Morgan warned of the folly of thinking about one metaphor being THE lens through which to understand organisations 30+ years ago... I totally agree on your point regarding "holding the space between multiple, often competing, perspectives" there is something valuable about standing in the soft shadows between clear meaning to allow new understandings to emerge