Well, managing in this environment is much more difficult. It's more about creating the right kind of environment than creating a task list. You have to have an innate belief that creating the right environment will create results, even though you don't know how to get where you're going. And I'll bet creating that environment isn't easy. You have to hold a creative tension, and that's an uncomfortable place for a lot of people to be.
Creative tension is in the middle, and it's a fairly narrow place.
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