The written word and our capacity to remember it is done easier when a picture is presented to align with the message being expressed. This picture’s visual and figurative representation sums up metaphor usage. As we have studied in the particular assignment, one can manage meaning when he can convince others to live the reality he would like to them to pursue. Enigmatic leaders seemingly influence how people perceive reality and therefore act and the language of metaphor is their not-so-secret weapon. “Metaphors are used frequently in everyday life. For example, the notion of organizational culture is a metaphor. Culture is actually a term borrowed from anthropology because organizational scholars could find no other term to articulate quite so effectively what they meant.”
Parry explores the fact that although metaphors are frequently used in business they somehow are not relied upon when it comes to leadership positions …show more content…
Even the military, which Dr. Gareth Morgan refers to in his “Machine Organisations” viewpoint, evolves (Morgan, 2006). It is true that good order and discipline usually produce expected outcomes and consequences are served to those who do not conform, but this is a fractured view by Morgan and not a true representation of the U. S. Military. One has to be mindful of their approach and think about what it means to say something before actually saying it, even in a martial environment.
Author Ken Parry explains metaphors and drill down further on their interpretations. As known as tropes; a trope is the generic term for figures of speech in which a word is used in a nonliteral way (Parry, 2008). Lastly, it is understood that it is extremely important to create a metaphor accurately, even in the most ordinary scenarios, to effectively get the message across (Cila, Hekkert, Visch,
Parry explores the fact that although metaphors are frequently used in business they somehow are not relied upon when it comes to leadership positions …show more content…
Even the military, which Dr. Gareth Morgan refers to in his “Machine Organisations” viewpoint, evolves (Morgan, 2006). It is true that good order and discipline usually produce expected outcomes and consequences are served to those who do not conform, but this is a fractured view by Morgan and not a true representation of the U. S. Military. One has to be mindful of their approach and think about what it means to say something before actually saying it, even in a martial environment.
Author Ken Parry explains metaphors and drill down further on their interpretations. As known as tropes; a trope is the generic term for figures of speech in which a word is used in a nonliteral way (Parry, 2008). Lastly, it is understood that it is extremely important to create a metaphor accurately, even in the most ordinary scenarios, to effectively get the message across (Cila, Hekkert, Visch,