Imagination and Communication Toward Future Realization

Abstract

This chapter focuses on how imagination can lead to great innovation, if leaders demonstrate this trait themselves or help foster an environment that will unearth the inner creativity that lives inside everyone. The authors focus on and highlight a few methods that allow people to demonstrate their inner creativity through empathy, design thinking, and diversity. This chapter is enriched with personal stories from the authors that underscore how these creativity evoking methods can be used in practice and the learnings that can result from them. A dissection of speeches or talks given by influential leaders is also discussed in this chapter as a means to demonstrate how the use of subtle language can actually take an audience on an imaginative journey. Overall, the need for leaders to be imaginative when it comes to future trends, to keep themselves informed, and to communicate, not only toward learning and understanding facts and trends but also in making ideas understandable to team members, is the critical message in this chapter.