Acknowledgements Re-writing Imagination into Management 'All beautiful poetry is an act of resistance' Introducing Metaphor Fireworks and Football Crowds: Metaphor as Theory Listening to Evelyn Glennie: Metaphor as Art 'Exchanges with strangers and things alien' Introducing Dialectic Polarities, Paralysis and Paradox: Centrifugal Dialectics Hybridity and Synthesis: Centripetal Dialectics Cacophony or Polyphony? Concluding Thoughts Bibliography