Accountability

, 65

AI. See Artificial intelligence (AI)

Algorithms

, 81–82

Alpha House

, 200

Alston, Macky

, 34–35, 146, 184–185

Amabile, Teresa

, 60–61, 66

Amazon

, 200

Aquinas, St. Thomas

, 3

Arieff, Alison

, 226

Aristotle

, 3

Artificial brain

, 101

Artificial intelligence (AI)

, 204

Autonomous vehicles

, 204

“Bannister Effect”

, 108, 109

Bartlet, Josiah

, 199

Behaviors

, 81, 111

individual

, 165

shifting

, 117

words influence

, 95–99

Big data

, 16

Biotechnology

, 205

Bloch, Maurice

, 145

Bock, Laszlo

, 60, 152

Boston Consulting Group

, 65

Brain

activity

, 94

imagination of human brain

, 166

Brainstorming rule

, 219

Breaking pattern

, 169

Brier, Noah

, 75, 79, 169, 187

Brin, Sergey

, 59

British Intelligence Service

, 180

Bronowski, Jacob

, 5–6

Bronson, Po

, 89

Buckner, Bill

, 175

Buckup, Sebastian

, 110–112

Buffett, Warren

, 154

Bush, George W.

, 48

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

, 202

Centrifugal force

, 181

Centrifugal workforce

, 181–184

Chernow, Ron

, 58

Churchill, Winston

, 179

Clinton, Bill

, 180

Cloud Appreciation Society

, 40

Cognitive ability

, 152

Cognitive bias

, 148

Cognitive development

, 210

Cognitive dissonance

, 120

Comedy

, 40, 171, 173

Complexity

, 113, 148, 204, 208, 209

“Computing machinery and intelligence”

, 167

“Confidence”

, 57, 147–148, 154

Cosmopolitan

, 227–228

Creativity

, 2, 8, 82, 107, 166, 174, 207

creative person

, 147

cult-like thinking

, 77

to encourage and support innovation

, 138

precursor to

, 55

CTO. See U.S. Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Culture

, 56, 223–224

company

, 60

cultural impoverishment

, 53

of imagination

, 82–84

of jazz

, 24, 25

Cybernetics

, 13

Data

, 197

exhaust

, 197

without imagination

, 201–204

imagination fueled by data, and vice versa

, 198–201

Decision-making

, 125, 130, 133, 180

active imagination

, 138

challenges

, 141

culture

, 138

curiosity

, 130–133

disaster preparedness

, 128

doing hard things

, 134

feeding imagination

, 140

good intentions leading to bad decisions

, 129–130

innovation

, 134–135

knowledge gathering

, 135

multiplicity of scenarios

, 127

one-to-many communications

, 128

safe spaces

, 138–139

seek out and inviting participants

, 137

technology

, 126

uncomfortable ideas

, 139

DeGraff, Jeff

, 68, 79, 80, 84

Descartes, Rene

, 3

“Diffuse mode”

, 170

Digital age

, 47

Directiveness

, 209

Disruptive innovation, logic of

, 16

Downtown Project

, 166

Dropel Fabrics

, 104

Education

, 38, 205

eeBoo

, 106

Einstein, Albert

about imagination

, 48

theory of relativity

, 31

Eisenhower, Dwight

, 181

Emotional balance factor

, 208

Employment

, 38

Expectation, imagination and

, 143

challenge

, 154–155

changing jobs

, 152–155

Jew-ish

, 143–146

move fast—change everything

, 149–151

not asking best questions

, 147–149

solving problems

, 151–152

Experimentation, science without

, 30–32

Expertise

, 85–86

Failure

, 215–218

challenges

, 220

value of bad ideas

, 218–219

Faith

, 6, 50, 145, 177

connections with imagination

, 146

in imagination

, 34–36

“Father of brainstorming”. See Osborn, Alex

Fear

, 3, 17, 62, 205

of imagination

, 146

overcoming

, 192

Feinstein, Bradley

, 64, 104–105, 185

“Feminine” traits

, 189

Fincher, David

, 200

Fishman, Mark

, 66

“Flow mode” approach

, 150, 151

“Focused mode”

, 170

Four Factor Imagination Theory (4FIT)

, 208

cognitive development

, 210

imagination-related behaviors

, 211

self-report measures and performance measures

, 208

4FIT. See Four Factor Imagination Theory (4FIT)

“Four-minute barrier”

, 108

Fourth Industrial Revolution, The

, 204–205

Frankl, Viktor

, 9

Franklin, Ben

, 155

“Frantic mode” approach

, 150, 151

Frequency factor

, 209

Freud and Klimt

, 161

F-Word. See Failure

Gates, Bill

, 57

Genius

, 160–163

Geography of Bliss, The

, 157, 160

Geography of Genius, The

, 160–161

GFT

, 203

Gioia, Dana

, 52–55

Global economy

, 204

Google

, 59–60, 152–153, 202

algorithm

, 202–203

Google Flu Tracker

, 202

Google Flu Trends

, 202

Google Glass

, 101

Google X

, 101

innovation experts and advocates in

, 60

treating employees

, 61

Grade point average (GPA)

, 46

Greenbaum, Harrison

, 171

Grownups

, 17, 35–36

Gump, Michael

, 67

Hamilton

, 57–58

Happiness

, 158, 160, 162, 166, 210

Happiness Manifesto

, 158–159

Hargreaves, James

, 13

Harvard Business Review

, 189–190

Hashtags

, 216

“Head” in jazz music

, 24

Hill, Harold

, 29, 30

House of Cards

, 199, 201

Hsieh, Tony

, 166

Human brain, imagination of

, 166

Humans

human brain, imagination of

, 166

human nature

, 205

and imagination

, 4–7

Hume, David

, 161

Hypothetical certainty

, 79

Imagination

, 1–2, 41, 55, 78, 85, 95, 116, 130, 140, 179, 197, 204–205, 215, 221

ability

, 41–42

application of

, 198

applying in individual level

, 44

applying in organizations

, 65–67

applying to closing imagination Gap

, 78–80

challenges

, 18, 36–38, 40, 69, 175, 235–236

culture of

, 82–84

curing cancer

, 229–230

and daily routine

, 67–69

data without imagination

, 201–204

decision-making and

, 125

active imagination

, 138

culture

, 138–139

curiosity

, 131

disaster preparedness

, 129

doing hard things

, 134

feeding imagination

, 140

global community

, 131

good intentions leading to bad decisions

, 129–130

innovation

, 134

knowledge gathering

, 135

learning systems

, 133

multiplicity of scenarios

, 127–128

new information

, 131–132

one-to-many communications

, 128

safe spaces

, 139–140

seek out and inviting participants

, 137

technology

, 126

uncomfortable ideas

, 138

drawing on right minds

, 59–61

economy

, 50

and experience

, 9–10

failures

, 48–52

faith in

, 34–36

formulas and models

, 223

fueled by data, and vice versa

, 198–201

and future

, 221–222

history

, 2–4

of human ancestors

, 45

and humans

, 4–7

importance

, 12–14

incremental change

, 8

innovation vs.

, 11–12, 222, 225

innovative companies

, 226–227

knowing and

, 45–48, 52–55

knowledge and systems

, 61–63

lack of

, 16–19

language and

, 95

Feinstein, Bradley

, 104–105

mental blocks

, 108–112

moonshots speech

, 99–103

overcoming resistance

, 116

pre-visualization

, 112–116

rational actors theory

, 119–121

self-identify

, 104–105

shifting behaviors

, 117

social change

, 118–119

words

, 95–99, 119

writing story

, 105–108

learning skills, unlocking potential

, 63–65

limitations

, 45, 163–166

on map

, 157–163

measuring

, 205–207

measuring imagination

, 205–207

media

, 224

MIT Entrepreneurship Review

, 227–228

playing game

, 234–235

product of

, 86

qualifying factor as big idea

, 225

questions about

, 231–234

reality-based

, 43

reality-directed

, 44

slow and steady

, 55–58

and structures

least funny comedian of all time

, 171–174

reprogramming operating system

, 166–168

Trader Joe’s Company

, 228–229

“Unexotic Underclass”

, 227

unexpected change

, 169–170

Imagination Age

, 14–16

Imagination gap

, 8, 18, 22, 38–39, 42, 163, 184, 221

closing

, 73

applying imagination

, 78–80

asking questions

, 89–90

being deviant

, 84–86

challenges

, 91

innovation

, 74–76

real and spectacular

, 76–78

requirements

, 73

seeing around corner

, 80–82

Thoughtless Acts

, 86–89

imagine everything

, 32–34

scaffolding

, 22–25

science without experimentation

, 30–32

Sheet Music

, 25–29

Think Method

, 29–30

Imagination Institute

, 207

Imagination Quotient scale (ImQ scale)

, 207

In-person conversations

, 18

Incremental change

, 7

Inevitable, failure

, 218–219

Inevitable part

, 217

Information

, 22

Information age

, 13–14

Ingenuity

, 55

Innovations

, 8, 74–76, 78, 83, 134, 135, 205, 222, 225

cult-like thinking

, 77

experts and advocates in Google

, 60

imagination vs.

, 11–12

precursor to

, 55

risk with

, 86

Intelligence

, 186, 201

Internet

, 7, 8, 10, 13, 16, 47, 125, 131, 223

Internet of Things (IoT)

, 204

Jargon monoxide

, 74

Jazz music

, 23–25, 30

Jew-ish

, 143–146

Kant, Immanuel

, 3, 161

Karolinska Institutet in Sweden

, 9

Kauffman, Scott Barry

, 150, 207

Kay, Aaron

, 189

Kennedy, US President

, 80, 100

Khaire, Mukti

, 60, 61, 66

King, Rita J.

, 14, 16, 62, 63, 80, 84, 179

Klain, Ron

, 127

Knowing and imagination

, 52–55

Knowledge

, 5, 14, 41, 46–47, 51, 61–63, 139, 198

explicit

, 132

role in closing imagination gap

, 136

Koch, Jim

, 57

Kodak

, 66

Koval, Christy

, 189

Land, George

, 16

Language

, 95

challenges

, 121–122

Feinstein, Bradley

, 104–105

mental blocks

, 108–112

moonshots speech

, 99–103

overcoming resistance

, 116

pre-visualization

, 112–116

rational actors theory

, 119–121

self-identify

, 104

shifting behaviors

, 118

social change

, 118–119

words

and images

, 119

influence behaviors

, 95–99

writing story

, 105–108

See also Imagination

Le Guin, Ursula

, 45

LeaderShape

, 102

Leadership

, 41, 55, 57, 66, 86, 135

business and civic leaders

, 42

responsibility

, 56

Learning skills

, 63–65

LEGO bricks

, 193

Lehrer, Jonah

, 32

Lepore, Jill

, 16

Lincoln, Abraham

, 179

LinkedIn

, 153

Linkner, Josh

, 23, 25, 85, 174

Littlewoods.com

, 89

Locke, John

, 47

Logic

, 4

of disruptive innovation

, 16

Logistics

, 216

Love-based approach

, 146

Luria, Isaac

, 145, 234

Magee, Charlie

, 14

Making Slough Happy experiment

, 159

“Masculine” traits

, 189

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

, 13

Mathematics

, 4

McGraw, Peter

, 173, 186, 193, 194

McKelvey, Daren

, 154, 193

McLuhan, Marshall

, 74

Media Rules!

, 224

Mental blocks

, 108

audio drops

, 110

Buckup, Sebastian

, 110–111

dramatic advancements

, 111–112

technology

, 109

Merryman, Ashley

, 89

the Met. See Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met)

, 55, 75, 185–186

Miranda, Lin-Manuel

, 58

Mistakes

, 215

analyzing

, 195

different

, 219

learn from

, 216

See also Failure

MIT. See Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

MIT Entrepreneurship Review

, 227–228

Moonshots speech

, 99

Google X

, 101, 103

Kennedy

, 100–101

leadership training program

, 102

Music

, 29

Nanotechnology

, 204

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

, 48–49

NBC

, 203

Netflix

, 84, 199–201, 203

Neumeier, Marty

, 83–84

Neuroimaging techniques

, 208

9–11 Commission. See National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Nooglers

, 152

Obama, Barack

, 67, 68, 71, 199

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

, 210

O’Connor, Bill

, 77

O’Neill, Paul

, 97–99

Operating system reprogramming

, 166–168

Oppenheimer, Mark

, 27

Osborn, Alex

, 219

P&L world. See Profit-and-loss world (P&L world)

Page, Larry

, 59, 102

Panels

, 216

ParentsTogether

, 91

Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life Project

, 143–144

Pew study

, 144, 163

Pink, Daniel

, 50

Poetry

, 3

Political freedom

, 205

Political rancor

, 217

Practical knowledge

, 45

Pre-visualization

, 112–116

Predictability

, 65

Priming

, 33

Problem solving

, 148

Profit-and-loss world (P&L world)

, 55

Proudfoot, Devon

, 189–190

Q4KIDZ programs

, 91

Rabbit-hole questions

, 79

Randomness of encounter

, 165

Rational actors theory

, 119–121

Rationality

, 4

Rauch, Doug

, 228–229

“Reach of Imagination” (Bronowski)

, 5

Reality-based imagination

, 43

Reality-directed imagination

, 44

Recognizing and acknowledging imagination

, 188

creative and innovative people

, 190

creative role within organization

, 188

gender bias

, 189

Harvard Business Review

, 189–190

imagination and creativity

, 191

issues

, 191

organizations in society

, 188

See also Imagination

Religion

, 35–36, 143, 145, 146, 230

Religious-like phenomena

, 145

Robinson, Michael

, 33–34

Robotics

, 204–205

Ronn, Kurt

, 87–88, 148–149

Rose, Jamie

, 83, 147

Rosenkrantz, Jason

, 37, 38

Ross, Alec

, 49–50

Sachs, Goldman

, 153, 186

Sartre, Jean-Paul

, 4

Sawaya, Nathan

, 194

Scaffolding

, 22–25

Schizophrenia

, 210

Schumpeter, Joseph

, 75–76

Schwab, Klaus

, 204

Schwartz, Johanna

, 10, 63–64, 188, 192, 194

Science without experimentation

, 30–32

Scientific method

, 30–32

components

, 31

Scott, Hannah

, 2, 197, 206

“Selective attention”

, 169

Shankman, Peter

, 88, 148, 179, 194

Shift & Reset

, 222

Sidney, Phillip

, 3

Siewert, Jake

, 36–37, 153, 186

Simms, Dia

, 83, 186–187, 190, 191

Siri, Jane Fulton

, 86–87

Six Sigma

, 66

Slocum, David

, 76–78

Smart(er) data

challenges

, 212

data exhaust

, 197

data without imagination

, 201–204

4FIT

, 207–211

Fourth Industrial Revolution, The

, 204–205

imagination

, 204–205

imagination fueled by data, and vice versa

, 198–201

measuring imagination

, 205–207

pinpointing business trends

, 198

“Smart” devices

, 150

Smith, Megan

, 130

“Social-tie density”

, 162

Software

, 16

Sorkin, Aaron

, 198, 203

South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW)

, 71–73

Spacey, Kevin

, 199

“Spark with Imagination, Fuel with Data” approach

, 59

Sreenivasan, Sree

, 55, 56, 75, 185

Stiles, Sarah

, 192

Strategic imagination

, 184

Surprise

, 40

Sutton, Robert I.

, 177

SXSW. See South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW)

Systems

, 16, 61–63

using expertise as determinant

, 85

standards of measurement

, 85

T-shirts

, 216

statements

, 212

Taylor, Bill

, 74

Technology

, 126

TEDxCambridge talk

, 200–201

Teller, Astro

, 101

Theoretical knowledge

, 45

Think Method

, 29–30

“Think System”

, 29–30

Thoughtless Acts

, 86–89

3D printing

, 204

Top-down communication

, 128

TrendWatching

, 96

Turing, Alan

, 167–168, 173

Turing Test

, 167–168

“Unexotic Underclass”

, 227

Unlocking potential

, 63–65

Unreasonable ideas

, 94

U.S. Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

, 130

Virtual Reality

, 16

Visual imaging

, 29–30

Visualization

, 113, 207

Voting gaps

, 164–165

Wal-Mart

, 136

“War room” approach

, 177, 179–181

acknowledging imagination

, 187–191

asset

, 192–194

centrifugal workforce

, 181–184

challenges

, 195

imagination

, 181, 184–187

rapid-response operation

, 180

stopping overthinking

, 177–179

Warren, Rick

, 144–145

Weiner, Eric

, 157, 160–161

Weird Ideas that Work

, 177

“Weird Rules”

, 177, 178

Wernicke, Sebastian

, 200

West Wing, The

, 198–199

Wiener, Norbert

, 13–14

Wieth, Mareike

, 68

Williamson, Timothy

, 43, 44

Willmon, Beau

, 199

Wojcicki, Susan

, 59

Words

, 99

influence behaviors

, 95–99

World Series

, 230

Wright, Robin

, 199

Writing story

, 105

games

, 105–108

social dynamics

, 107–108

Zabelina, Darya

, 33–34, 207, 208

Zacks, Rose

, 68

Zuckerberg, Mark

, 67, 154