The ebook is the first in the series “Metaphors for Alignment”. It provides an overview of the value of using metaphors in business and the benefits of applying them in business settings. You will also learn how the tool Metaphor Mapping has been applied to change culture in a manufacturing oranization and align numerous country organizations that led to successfully implementing an international project. In just a ten minute read, you will gain insight into making complex matters “mind-sized” and improving organization performance. Read More 
Simplify
The ebook is the first in the series “Metaphors for Alignment”. It provides an overview of the value of using metaphors in business and the benefits of applying them in business settings. You will also learn how the tool Metaphor Mapping has been applied to change culture in a manufacturing oranization and align numerous country organizations that led to successfully implementing an international project. In just a ten minute read, you will gain insight into making complex matters “mind-sized” and improving organization performance. Read More Leading from the Middle
This short ebook is part two of the collection “Metaphors for Alignment”. Its target audience includes project managers, middle level managers and professionals in all fields who aspire to lead but don’t have manager titles. You will learn how to improve an organization when you see a need and have the will but don’t have power. Read More Alphas Don’t Bark
This ebook is the third in the series “Metaphors for Alignment”. Its target audience is senior executives seeking ways to effect broad scale change in their organizations. You will learn how to integrate “inspirational” and “working” metaphors into your leadership methods and gain the experience of other execs who have employed cascading workshops to engage a large number of subordinates in change programs. Read More Metaphors for Alignment
This ebook shows leaders how they can use metaphors and symbols to bring about change in their organizations– To simplify, collaborate and motivate. It’s in three parts: Simplify - Making Problems Mind-Sized with Metaphors. It introduces the concept of building metaphoric maps to solve problems and set strategy and provides examples of their use for international project coordination and changing culture in a manufacturing group. Leading from the Middle – Collaboration through Metaphors. It shows how non-managers can lead in setting strategy collaboratively, without power, across organizations. It shows an example of creating a “contract” for for IT, system users and a steering committee. Alphas Don’t Bark - Metaphors to Lead Enterprise Change. It shows how senior executives can leverage metaphors and provides examples of focusing an organization culture and implementing broad scale change by engaging a large number of subordinates in cascading workshops. Read More The Book That Opened the Door
Re-Inventing Communication This seminal book on using metaphors for collaborative strategy setting was published in 1994. On assignment from the World Trade Organization to help Sri Lanka grow exports, Larry Raymond found that words alone were useless in aligning people to a common objective. The business leaders, educators and government officials he brought together did nothing other than declare and defend their views, over and over, louder each time with phrases such as: “If you had simply listened to me last year, we wouldn’t have a problem.” If you ever had the task of leading change, you know the challenge! You also know that conventional solutions don’t get you all the way to a focused, motivated team. Fortunately, two hours down that road in Sri Lanka came the breakthrough idea that developed into the suite of visual, metaphoric “languages” that have since focused hundreds of workshops on building and implementing a challenging vision of the future. Visual, Metaphor Languages are a new tool to show connections, relationships, values, obstacles, risks and strategies. They encourage building on each others’ ideas and draw out intuition and spatial thinking capabilities to display the big picture and its logic and the often hidden emotions [...] Read More