(Johnson & Hackman, 1995, p. 100). Metaphors, like stories and myths, compress complicated issues into understandable images and allow members to make sense out of the organization, discuss and understand change, and bridge the known with the unknown (Putnam & Fairhurst, 2001). They affect our attitudes and actions. For example, a college president who sees the university as a teaching organization (Bolman & Deal, 2003). “Metaphors, then, are unique because they trigger an individual’s memory and sensory capacities…” (Offstein & Neck, 2003) p. 24).