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I responded without really thinking about it, “It depends on how you think about organizations.” What a fitting and brief conversation that exemplifies both the significance and salience of Gareth Morgan’s work on metaphors for the greater organizational studies community. Exploring Morgan’s Metaphors: Theory, research, and Practice in Organizational Studies edited by Örtenblad, Trehan, and Putnam, encourages readers to continually think about how they might approach the study of organization from various vantage points through multiple chapters dedicated to (re)thinking Morgan’s Images of Organization. This review is then somewhat unique as the edited text is also reviewing, celebrating, and extending another text. With that, I’ll do my best to focus on the edited volume without further reviewing Morgan’s work. This volume was assembled to reflect on the significance of Morgan’s seminal work, to consider how people are utilizing this work now, and to consider the future of this theoretical approach. Thus, the text is organized into three distinct parts inclusive of 12 chapters written by 23 authors. Looking across the chapters, it is challenging to weave together a coherent argument throughout the book. However, in the forward Morgan notes,