cameron and green making-sense-of-change-management

Leading change• different leadership for different phases of change;• the importance of self-knowledge and inner resources;• summary and conclusions.It is important to first make the point that good leadership is wellroundedleadership. We believe that all four metaphors of organizationsgive rise to useful notions of leadership. Leaders go wrong when theybecome stuck in one metaphor, or in one way of doing things, and thereforeappear one-dimensional in their range of styles and approaches.To begin, we link leadership to the ideas presented in Chapter 3 onorganizational change, by looking at the type of leadership that followsfrom approaching organizational change using each of the four keymetaphors (see Table 4.1):• the machine metaphor;• the political system metaphor;• the organism metaphor;• The flux and transformation metaphor.Table 4.1 illustrates that the use of each metaphor brings both advantagesand disadvantages for those wishing to be successful leaders of change.Table 4.1Leadership linked to organizational metaphorsMetaphor Nature of change Leader’s Type of Typical pitfalls forrole leadership the leaderrequiredMachine The designed end Chief Project Micro-managementstate can be designer management. by leader meansworked towards. and Goal setting. activity focuses onResistance must implementer Monitoring measuring,be managed. of the and rather thanChange needs to changes. controlling. experimenting orbe planned andtaking risks.controlled.139