Changing consciousness or mindsets or social agreements – e.g. about the role of women in organizations, or about hierarchical structures, or even about how change happens in organizations – would therefore require challenging or changing the prevailing narratives, stories and so on that are endorsed by those presently and/or historically in power and authority. The critical orientation’s emphasis on how power and interests intersect to create the privileged versions of things helps us to understand that more than just ‘awareness’ may be necessary to find common ground or achieve a change in mindsets. Instead, power dynamics may be involved in establishing the story lines and alternative ‘texts’ associated with a different worldview.