Metaphors Used By Leaders Spark And Sustain Change

Studies on the subjects of leadership and management have the underlying difference between a leader and a manager as “managers maintain things and leaders change things.” Gill (2006:26) explains their difference as “Managers plan, allocate resources, administer and control whereas leaders innovate, communicate and motivate”

According to Showry and Manasa, the heart of human behavior in management is being self-aware. A manager must be aware of self, experiences and people’s impact on self. A good leader must understand his or hers own values, beliefs and interior/external motivations. Self-awareness makes a person in a leadership position look at their developmental needs realistically. An effective manager must have an internal sense of self and must be in touch with their values, characteristics, traits, strengths and weaknesses. Finally, to be a good leader one must have determination to shape their life by setting goals and building a team to accomplish these goals over time. Those who do not follow or are tentative about this process remain directionless and an ineffective manager and leader. Leaders should also have a

A great example to compare this to is in Macbeth when Lady Macbeth is the mind behind the whole operation of killing the king. Her character along with the speaker wants to have the same control as men are for bad or for good. The author is trying to convey with her diction that she wants her point across in the poem that women don’t have to be set under what they can accomplish. There is a lot of imagery in this poem, yet one of the recurring pieces is fire. The speaker brings it up many times such as “and what we never will be: star-gazers, fire-eaters.”, and “moth our children to the flame of hearth not history.” The fire imagined as the fire that the author is set under to want to change women’s role in society. Painting the picture of her passion and longing for throughout the poem, she then ends the poem with “she's no fire-eater, just my frosty neighbor coming home.” Acknowledging that even though she wants all these things for her and her gender something’s may not happen,

Fire is depicted, throughout history, as a symbol of knowledge and awareness. Fire is usually a symbol that appears in novels right at a time when the main character has an epiphany or realizes

Fire symbolizes the government’s authority and ability to burn ideas and free thinking of an individual. The government has the authority over the people who are in a

In the novel, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy uses a wide range of symbols in The Road that helps the reader foster and construct new ideas about the novel as a whole. Some of these symbols are the fire and religious imagery that helps add substance to the story and help the reader think and understand the overall message of the novel. Insert thesis… In the novel fire In different cultures, fire symbolizes many things such as power, love, destruction, hate, hope, and desire. In the novel, I think fire symbolizes having the strength to maintain the qualities that makes people human such as hope, resilience, and perseverance because these qualities will help them face the hardships in their journey.

Leadership is critical when executing a strategic change initiative. By differentiating leadership and management, leadership styles and the key factors of change we can better understand what should be done to successfully lead change. Success is not obtained through leadership alone but by developing a group of individuals from all levels of the organization who work together as a team. . (Leban and Stone, 2007)

In Images of Organization by Gareth Morgan, he talks about the importance of metaphors in regard to organizational theories. Morgan uses metaphors to support his theories and offer new approaches to goals that are complex. There are three strong reasons that Morgan provides as to why the metaphorical analysis of organizations holds value. The first reason according to Morgan, is that metaphors use images that people can relate to in some perspective. Metaphors are used consistently because they “tap familiar ways of thinking” (Morgan 6).

According to organisational behaviour by McShane, leadership is defined as influencing, motivating and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organisation of which they are members (page 382, McShane).Becoming an effective leader depends on the leader’s leadership style. Successful leaders have vision and charisma, also the leader should have an ongoing personality, talkative, careful and self-disciplined. The leader must also have self-concept

The Path to Achieving My Personal Goal Throughout my life, I discovered that there was more to being in charge than managing the people around you. Managing a workforce requires a specific skillset that enables an individual to have a vision and align the right people up with achieving a specific goal. Even that isn’t enough though. To be a successful manager in any organization you must be able to not only manage the work being performed, you must also provide the inspiration needed to the employees appointed to you. Employees that are inspired perform their very best not because they need to, but because they want to. It is what drives them to continue moving forward through what could be an uneventful and mundane career. This skill that motivates employees to get things done through inspiration is called Leadership and every organization can benefit from it. That is why I decided to create my focus area on Organizational Leadership. I am currently working as an Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Officer at the Chicago

First, I will fix myself some important guidelines about the way of running a company. Indeed, I would like to promote a positive work environment, where everyone's contributions, regardless of titles, are valued. This is one of the best ways to ensure success. Then, when it comes to leadership, I really embrace Max De Pree’s point of view , the former CEO of Herman Miller who said "Leaders polish all their facets equally, developing one's career alone will not be enough for leaders...it has always seemed to me that crystals with many facets shine brightest...it is not self-improvement, leadership is not a job it is a position. The people who work for you are not your people, you are theirs...polishing gifts begins by reflecting on how to design the ways in which you as a leader or a future leader will work intelligently towards your potential." Thereby, to become a multi-faceted leader you must deliberately set out to become the person you intend to be. You will find your purpose in life by help others get what they want. Finally, I think that when you find what you love doing and you practice it with passion, you are able to touch more people with your work and create much more value in the world. You inspire more people around you, and more people want to work with you. You also fulfill a higher purpose and have a life with deeper meaning. I know that sometimes it is difficult not to be influenced

With the long-term goal of becoming a transformational leader, it is often useful to consider one's strengths and weak nesses across four dimensions. These include personal and professional accountability, career planning, personal journey disciplines and reflect practice reference behaviors and tenets. The intent of this analysis is to evaluate my strengths and weaknesses in each of these four areas. In addition, a discussion will be completed on how current leadership skill sets will be used for advocating change in my workplace. The conclusion of the paper will concentrate on one personal goal for leadership growth, including an implementation plan leading to its fulfillment.

Metaphors help simplify complex concepts by integrating an already know term to a new term, therefore making it more comprehensible to the readers. In his book, Images of Organization, Gareth Morgan (2006) simply applied metaphors in bringing to our understanding the different perspectives and faces of organizations (Bottero, K, 2013) This paper would pinpoint and attempt to examine the major metaphoric postulations of Gareth Morgan’s Images of Organization. As Morgan would say, the entire management and organizational theories essentially emanate from implicit mind frames or metaphors that attempt to convince humans to see, know and visualize situations in

The evolvement of my personal philosophy of management and leadership has come as a result of positive and negative experiences as a manager and also being managed. I currently take a predominantly participative management approach that is based being people-centred. This is a relatively recent transition from a more autocratic and ‘one size fits all’ approach. A participative management approach to management and leadership has been proven to support a well-informed team with strong problem solving skills (Cole, 2010) that promote the key characteristics of developing a team that can work independently and in the absence of their manager. Learning to actively engage in self-reflection was the catalyst to understanding that my concept of managing and leading in an authoritarian manner may be driving negative outcomes in my team and organisation.

The impact of leadership style in the change process of an organization influences the performance; Leadership as stated by Martin, Liao and Campbell (2013) remains one of the most consequential contextual influencers of employee performance. Latson (2014) elucidated that some leaders may have the best intentions, but the impact will not be in alignment with the intension. But leadership trait is the ability to inspire, motivate and engage the followers to make the inspired vision happen beyond their normal capabilities (Mendez, Munoz & Munoz 2013). A change is the most frequent phenomenon of today's reality and a good understanding of how to manage the change process is very essential; Change is translation from one state into