This book presents a theoretically informed approach to creative strategizing based on building metaphorical structures that represent organizations.

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; Vignette A. BASF; 1. Strategizing out of the box; Vignette B. UNICEF; 2. Metaphor and embodied realism; 3. Analyzing embodied metaphors as an interpretive, hermeneutic endeavour; Vignette C. Voltigo (Fribourg); 4. Crafting strategy as a practice of embodied recursive enactment; 5. Play, analogical reasoning and dialogue in the crafting of strategy; Vignette D. Hephata; 6. Understanding organizations through embodied metaphors; 7. Sensemaking through embodied metaphors in organization development; Vignette E. Privatbank; 8. Strategy as a crafting practice; Vignette F. Worldvision New Zealand; 9. The process of strategizing through crafting embodied metaphors; Glossary; Index.