My favourite Leadership Metaphors

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Metaphors help us understand complex messages and well used can be an effective part of the leader’s toolkit.

Here are my favourite leadership metaphors.

Leadership is like:

‘Great art – not paint by numbers. It cannot be formulaic.’

‘Taking three dogs for a walk – called purpose, current delivery and future success. They are often pulling in different directions but have to end up at the same destination.’

‘Yoga – needing to isolate, educate and exercise different leadership muscles.’

‘Being an Architect (shaping the vision), Conductor (setting the tempo)

and Ratchet (injecting the pressure).’