Flux and Transformation Organizational Metaphore

Around 500 BC the Greek philosopher Heraclitus noted that, you can not step into the same river , for other waters are continually flowing on.” ” Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed…cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist….It is in changing that things find repose.

(Morgan, pg.241)

Gareth Morgan proposed 8 ‘metaphors’ to characterise the current state of organizations in 2006.  Some speculation exists as to whether organizations evolve from one metaphor to another.  The article at this link defines the Flux and Transformation metaphor clearly.

http://lewisorgtheory.pbworks.com/w/page/16682135/Flux%20and%20transformation