ABSTRACT
Although organizations are social constructs that operate in an ever-changing environment, leaders also create some of the environment they must react to. Constructivist reality is linked to the postmodern process ontology. The sense leaders make of any change initiative is impacted by their ontological perspective and so the first step to engaging them is to try and understand their perspective and the level of challenge that any change we are proposing will present to them. Leaders with a modernist ontology of change as an epi-phenomenon often find the outcomes that the methodology has delivered in other organizations that they have heard about appealing but think of it as a change project that can be delegated to a project manager to implement.
