I was listening to a radio program the other day where they were discussing the innovative use of new technologies, which could use the evaporation of sea water to purify it and produce not only usable fresh water but cooling, this is combined with concentrated solar power.  These two technologies have the power to grow trees in the Sahara and green this most arid of places.  For those who are interested in the science of it read more here.

What interested me was the sort of mind that could look at something like the Sahara desert and envision a forest.  The name of this project is evocative and powerful.  This level of vision and bravery is so often missing in business.  So much time and effort is spent in marginal and incremental changes.  This kind of bold transformation is very compelling and powerful, for those brave enough to commit to it.

Vision and imagination seem to be rare qualities in today and I’d love to hear some examples you have of them please.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create”  Albert Einstein

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”  Carl Sagan