1 On the powers and pitfalls of the imagination
Introduction to the chapter
Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams.
– Christopher Columbus
Students of leadership approach their investigations in a variety of ways. These investigations require the use of many methods, including observation, logic, and abstract theories. A thorough understanding depends upon all of these powers working together. This is one reason that Leadership Studies stubbornly persists as an interdisciplinary project: it draws from so many different methods. This fact should not be surprising inasmuch as the practice of leadership draws from a comparable array of attributes. Nobody leads for long without such powers. It is ...
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