Leadership requires imagination because this wonderful skill opens a view to so many possibilities. A precursor to creativity and innovation, it allows us to challenge ‘the way we’ve always done things’ to try something new.

In Stephen Hawking’s book ‘Brief Answers to the Big Questions’, he paid homage to Albert Einstein who looked to his imagination to seek answers about the universe.

“He [Einstein] was undaunted by common sense,” Hawking wrote, “the idea that things must be the way they seemed.”