Albert Einstein
Imagining is not dreaming. Maybe to an extent but it is more than that. Imagining is being creative. We owe all the inventions and development to imagination, without which, I bet we will still be cavemen. Knowledge is important but imagination is even more important.
Imagination deals with the future and knowledge deals with the past. Imagination creates and knowledge manages. Imagination breaks the norm and knowledge maintains the status quo. A leader needs imagination to create a vision. A manager needs knowledge to operate the organization. An organization with only managers will be obsolete eventually.
Not only it is important in business. Imagination is required to solve problems that mankind have, and move humans to a higher level of achievement and well being. How are we going to solve global warming? How are we going to eradicate poverty? We need imagination to come out with the solutions.
Einstein wouldn’t have realize the theory of relativity if he had not utilized his imagination. In any field, if you are a leader, you need to imagine, for the breakthrough.
