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“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.” – Henry Miller, playwright, author

Imagination Age leadership power strategies provide business executives, entrepreneurs, managers and knowledge professionals with a compelling sense of discipline, direction and diagnostic foresight.

Before we go any further, you may wish to ask: “What is this Imagination Age?” “When is it going to begin?” “How might the changes brought about by this new era affect me, impact my organization or infringe upon our corporate resources?”

I hear many of you questioning why I’m calling these frustrating times, the Imagination Age – for instance, you’re probably asking yourself; “Aren’t we already in the midst of an Information Age, isn’t this supposed to be the Knowledge Economy we’re grappling with, doesn’t everybody say we’re competing in the “age of globalization?”

Well, the easy answers to your questions are “yes, yes, and yes”, but what does that tell you about the hidden forces that are driving our world? We might as well face the facts, the Thing that determines the name of any age is the Thing that makes human endeavors successful.

Think about it, in the Agrarian Age, it was our mastery of agricultural practices that made human civilizations prosperous, and in the Industrial Age, it was our ability to produce more and faster that spelled success for industrialists.

“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
- Albert Einstein

And just what is that Thing that makes our efforts more successful in these times? Is it our ability to capture and hold our Attention, no, is it our willingness to make a Recommendation, not necessarily, is it our skilled and consistent use of our Imaginations, well, I say, “yes it is”!

You may discover that your executives, managers, knowledge professionals or your corporate entrepreneurs and your organization are satisfied with playing the “me-too”, “let’s-do-what-They’re-doing” or the “we’re-all-in-this-Thing-together” “game”, so if that’s what your other leaders are thinking, then maybe it’s time you re-thought your affiliation with the company you’re keeping.

Will possessing more information, developing our knowledge or merely having a global perspective make any of us more successful? Do you really believe there are truly sustainable advantages in leading an information-driven, knowledge-producing, globally-aware organization? Can you see the logical reasons why harnessing the imaginative, innovative, intuitive potential of human beings could result in producing a competent, capable and highly competitive business enterprise?

The primary task of leadership is to engage, empower and encourage human organizations so that they produce effective results for their customers, constituents or communities. Executives, entrepreneurs, managers and knowledge professionals employ their leadership strategies, skills and social capital to fulfill their missions.

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
- Henry David Thoreau, philosopher, naturalist

Today’s business leaders need to find better ways of tapping into, unleashing and focusing the powerful physical, mental, emotional and developmental energies of their talent pool.

Along with mining those rich veins or “bundles of human-driven competencies”, Imagination Age leaders must continuously exploit their technological systems, their requisite generative or processing methodologies, space-time arenas (within which events and situations occur) and manifolds (of possibilities) and the diversity of philosophical or operational structures available to their organizations.

In a word, those eagerly sought-after strategies which elevate the substantially higher performance levels of Imagination Age organizations also serve to energize, enrich and engender the totality of their leadership power and provide their stakeholders with an ability to make competitive, effective and opportunistic contributions to our world.

Empowering knowledge professionals and other employees to meet the seriously demanding challenges of this Imagination Age should be the number one priority of today’s entrepreneurs, executives and managers.

Organizational leadership must extensively improve their currently available, rather feeble offerings of leadership skills training programs, behavioral coaching services, personal empowerment counseling, process and structural consultations and professional development courses.

The objectives or imperatives for these interventions involves strengthening the discipline of human thinking and behaving, supplying people with knowledgeable insights and personally-relevant directions and supporting the diagnostic processes everyone needs to improve and succeed.

“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”
- Blaise Pascal