{"id":146,"date":"2013-06-18T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T23:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregmowbray.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2013-06-18T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T23:50:39","slug":"imagination-vital-for-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/imagination-vital-for-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagination &#8211; vital for leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;Imagination is more important than intelligence.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>Albert Einstein.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the ways I keep current with leadership matters and thought leaders around the world is to follow the blogs of a number of gurus. One of them is a guy called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/infiniticorp.us2.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=c7baca9a4f6830b348c3243f2&amp;id=4bd2260d0f&amp;e=71fbf26641\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Miller<\/a>. A recent blog really appealed to me so I have included some thoughts from it here. It is about the importance of imagination in leadership.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He makes the point that leaders try to get us to a future that doesn&#8217;t yet exist. They imagine it first. They also imagine the path that will lead to the future &#8211; that&#8217;s called strategy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They get us to imagine the benefits of this future place. Sometimes they get us to imagine the consequences if we don&#8217;t go on the journey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leadership can be a serious task and we can get caught up in it, but we need to keep our ability to imagine and even develop our imagination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Einstein also said &#8220;Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life&#8217;s coming attractions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What are you imagining for your organisation&#8217;s future?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PS: The image of Einstein is by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/infiniticorp.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=c7baca9a4f6830b348c3243f2&amp;id=c78f9b9ac1&amp;e=71fbf26641\" target=\"_blank\">Derek Russell.<\/a>\u00a0Thank you to Derek for allowing me to share his great work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Imagination is more important than intelligence.&#8221;\u00a0Albert Einstein. One of the ways I keep current with leadership matters and thought leaders around the world is to follow the blogs of a number of gurus. One of them is a guy called\u00a0Mark Miller. A recent blog really appealed to me so I have included some thoughts from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[81,154],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imagination","category-leadership","tag-imagination","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}