Displacement of Concepts

Abstract

Displacement of concepts is something that we all experience. It is an important element of sensemaking which can greatly help with adoption of new ways of thinking but is often misunderstood or overlooked by interventionists. Leaders usually come up with features such as container, sides, base, different shapes, and so forth. Some academics argue that displacement of concepts can only happen within, not between, paradigms and so would not resolve the conflict of using a postmodern perspective in modernist organizations. Leader sensemaking is complex and paradoxical. The challenge for postmodern influenced methodologies and interventionists is to recognize that paradigm shift is not about clear distinctions between one or another, it is much more likely to entail a displacement of concepts that fuses both paradigms.

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