ABSTRACT
There are many sensemaking elements in this piece of advice by the leader. Interestingly, in making sense of what it feels like to engage with the methodology the leader is in effect giving the leaders in the meeting a preunderstanding story to help counter modernist preunderstanding of change that they may hold – he is giving them a memory of the future. The sensemaking is of disbelief and leaders stunned that such a situation as in the case study could arise, although one saw the opportunity that the new information offered. The use of the concept of a lens to help this sensemaking suggests that leaders are beginning to understand that there is not, as one leader describes it, one version of the truth.
