Title: The Importance Of Imagination
Headings: The Importance Of Imagination
The Importance Of Imagination
Imagination is the key to innovation.
IMAGINATION: A LEADER’S BEST FRIEND
How to enhance your imagination
Start with the end in mind
Apply the creative and empathic imagination
Engage the imagination of others
Excerpt from book "Leadership is Upside Down"
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Tao de Haas

Content: Even if they have experienced hardship, they are able to imagine what it would be like for people in worse conditions. Just think of people like Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa – they were very much driven by their empathic imagination. Engage the imagination of others
It is much easier to discourage than to encourage people’s imagination, especially if it is not part of the work culture. Sometimes it might take some courage to go against a restrictive way of thinking. As someone said to me recently, “I’d rather have my idea shot down than not say anything and a lesser idea be put forward.” The Edward de Bono’s Six Hat Thinking Methodology has been effective and popular in encouraging people in the workplace to activate their imagination. The Red hat represents intuition, feelings and hunches and the Green hat represents creative ideas and possibilities. As a leader of a team, it may be a good idea to read or become trained in the Six Hat Thinking process. In the business world where reason, reality, facts and pragmatism prevail, I have seen people looking worried and even embarrassed when asked to use their imagination – as if imagining things was something only children or creative people can do. The belief that imagination is somehow inferior to logical reasoning often kills, stifles or smothers potential great ideas.