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I think [managers] need the skills that allow them to work within a system but to deliver the results that they want, that the people they support, need. I think that’s very, very challenging. I think the level of innovation, the level of imagination needed to work within what are increasingly tighter controls and restrictions, whilst delivering, I think is very challenging.

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Schwabenland, C. (2012). Re-writing Imagination into Management. In: Metaphor and Dialectic in Managing Diversity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137022677_1

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