There is a danger of a "supermarket" approach towards metaphors, where we just keep filling our basket with metaphors to cover up any weaknesses or inadequacies (excuse the irony here of using another metaphor).
The real danger with having too many metaphors is that they lead to a superficial understanding of the issue under consideration.
However, Alvesson 2002, perhaps makes the key distinction between a series of disconnected metaphors and those which are applied in the Seven Sides of Education Leadership
"Complex understanding is perhaps more often derived from a synthesis of different metaphors than from a single sharp-profile picture" p 23
The use of metaphors in the Seven Sides approach is not to provide alternatives for people who prefer one metaphor over another - which is often the reason for increasing the number of metaphors in any model - but to capture the complex reality of the cultural change process.
The metaphors are not alternatives - they are sides of a systemic perspective. which would be incomplete without reference to all sides.
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