Creativity

From the book Minute Motivators for Leaders, by Stan Toler:


"Imagination is the beginning of creativity."
   -  George Bernard Shaw


'Leaders don't just think outside the box. They live outside the box!


If there is a conventional way to approach a problem, a great leader will think of that last. What's new? What's different? What hasn't been done? These are the questions a leader asks.


Leaders are creative people. They see things that don't exist and bring them to life. They are content to work in fresh soil. They don't need the tried and tested. They are willing to go where no one else has gone before. They are moon walkers. 


Creative leaders are willing to sacrifice the immediate for the cause of tomorrow. No price is too great to see the birth of their dreams. They're willing to work under the heat of the sun to plant seeds of promise. Clouds and rain don't deter them. 


Creative leaders are willing to use methods that haven't been proven. They delight in merging new ideas and principles with people in a fresh coalescence to achieve their goals.


Leaders look at life through the binoculars of possibility.'