A recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article highlighted nine attributes to boost CEO potential for project managers. Five of these attributes can be fostered by developing the skill of imagination and each is helpful to progress any type of career.

Like happiness, imagination is a learnt skill that empowers us to connect to the positives in life, both in mindset and, when put in practice, can be translated into action.

In a session I ran last week, I was reminded of the importance of imagination to foster wellbeing.

If ever you’ve wondered, ‘does imagination lead to creativity and innovation’, I suggest you review Albert Einstein’s remarkable life. He practiced his imagination through ‘thought experiments’, often providing the seed that led to his many extraordinary scientific breakthroughs.