Imagination Management

The imagination construct fosters a never-ending inquisitiveness for the brilliant minds to embark on a tangible and intangible invention. The success of the imagination conceptualization has resulted into revolutionized intellectual birth time and again; clearly evident from its life. The theory acclaimed recognition by Albert Enistein words; where he mentioned imagination as a triumph over knowledge because of its limitless properties.

The ground breaking excogitation repercussions right from the beginning of the world stimulates intellectual wonderment. As what is the right source of final knowledge production which turns into patents and scientific inventions? Does the source come from observation of the existent reality or imagination of the non-existent?

The pragmatism of the current settings provides evidence of unacceptability of the established systems. For example, the intellectual theorists, scholars worldwide, the scientific knowledge acquirers favor discussions, debates and questioning which reflects their thirst for epistemology. Specifically, a need for change is observed through refusal of the theories which back the world renowned systems e.g. the educational system, the governance system and the organizational system. That means the brilliant minds in today’s time, continuously strive to contribute towards body of knowledge by implementing the truth and eliminating the false via observation, questioning and observation.

Therefore, this blog post is trying to find out what is the right source of final knowledge production? Is it observation of the realism structures or imagination of the non-prevailing and non-existent reality?

Ø  The scientific idea of transforming the chemical of silicon into a chip and integration of circuits was an adventurous journey of idea formation via observation and imagination. For example, German Engineer Werner Jacobi back in 1949 first developed the integrated circuit which turned into a complete product in year 2000 by Jack Kilby. The journey did not end up here; the product was further improved by Robert Noyce who made the product more beneficial.

Ø  In another instance, to organize the land and establishment of settlements on the coast of North America, Virginia Company was formed and chartered by James VI in year 1606. This was the first ever company in the world.

By examining and operationalizing the two examples, we can draw following inferences to achieve deeper insights on the questions raised.

Ø  Our way of thinking, responding, perceiving and understanding is either dependent upon our stagnant learning during our past life or self-decidedly questioning our own attitude, thinking behavior and action in order to achieve new wisdom, new learning and new mental capabilities.

Ø  The theoretical underpinning leads to further exploration of the conceptualization. For example; in the case of integrated circuits, the initial observation of the resource presence lead to Silicon discovery and further was imagined by a brilliant mind to be used in a chip containing millions of electronic components. In the case of organization establishment, the need was first observed to manage the land and an idea of a proper company was imagined to execute the purpose of the need.

Ø  Change is one of the most important factors which further emphasize on the construct of imagination. For example, when it will be used excessively, a denial of the core realities would occur simultaneously e.g. the stagnant time movement provides reasoning that nothing remains still forever so things must get improved and altered to suit the human needs with passing time. In the case of integrated circuits, we can observe that the final product was made in result to a complete journey of previous patents and ideas introduced by set of brilliant minds. The product lived a journey of improvement and alteration. Therefore, the construct of change leads to imagination because the reality changes and so do the reality observational patterns.

Ø  Human’s self-perceptional knowledge provides a system for imagination to process itself and produces an idea.

Ø  The same idea is then manufactured as an action to produce the final invention.

Therefore, there is certainly a need to manage the imagination and to focus on how it could be done effectively to achieve effective results. In conclusion, this blog post introduces new concept of ‘’Imagination Management’’ which includes networking and partnership with observation resulting into knowledge; which in turn fosters inquisitiveness of the established realities which would again lead to imagination. This could be best explained by the conceptual model given below.

 Do you trust team-work?

The emphasis on team work has always been largely focused in almost all industries. Many team-work theories are into practice by world renowned organizations e.g. Intel, HP etc. Trust is granted as a key towards product success at almost all stages of ''New Product Development'',  Team work refer towards individuals involvement in a certain task via effective brain storming and sharing of ideas. Recent research-work emphasizes on trust existence in knowledge-sharing setups. Researchers are of the view that non-existence of trust may not make sharing of ideas successful. Hence, trust is mandatory to be able to work in a team as it lead towards employees being more productive. Vast amount of literature in sociology and psychology treats trust as a multidimensional concept such as it has both dimensions of affect and cognition. 

Can team-work exist in a set-up where the cause and effect is based on evil-structure? 

The evil-structure is such like where if you put greater amounts of lie, dishonesty, destructive-thinking, injustice, brutality into your work; you will get greater intrinsic and extrinsic rewards such like promotions, recognition,  pious titles, tax relaxations, governmental support and so on.

The originality of the team-work would vanish if the individuals with evil intentions and behavior execute their daily tasks. But its of a great significance to explore if individuals with evil intentions do understand the essence of a team work. Its interesting to see that if they really do understand it then how do they actually follow or implement it.


How could team-work be like in an evil-structure?

Lets consider example of an organization which is based on an evil structure. An organization where injustice defeat justice, where recognition is awarded to individuals who win by organizational politics and where there is excessive corruption. So let suppose that organization is a university where where one department is responsible to conduct internationally-approved tests. A team is organized to initiate this task. To document a complete procedure, manager assigns task to an employee ''A'' to organize a meeting with his team to have a discussion on increasing prospective student’s applications for the test.

During the discussion session; team members talk about ways to attract number of prospective students. However, team member ''B'' shares a problem they might face. He shares that gaing maximum number of students is difficult because there are number of other test organizers in the same region who have better quality record. Therefore, it might not be easy to beat competitors. Another team member jumps in and gives a solution. He says that if we give some incentive to prospective students they might register with us; for example providing help to students during the test.  Maximum number of team members agree to this idea. However, team member ''C'' calls this idea as unfair and illegal. All team members try to convince him that increase in student’s applications will eventually leads to your own increase in salary and you will be given commission and many other incentives. They further explain that its really easy to hide illegal activities.  Team member ''C'' still remain unconvinved and shows his disagreement. Eventually, he was asked by the management either to be part of it or to quit the job. Unfortunately, he did not fit in the evil structure and ended up loosing his job. However, rest of the team members carried on with their task and worked excessively to attract prospective students by mentioning that help would be provided during the test. 

There are number of things we can observe from such an example. Team members worked and accomplished the task. However, their motivation behind the task was quick and excessive money. Team members of an evil structure do realize how to help other member of the same mind-set. Evil-ideas are shared with honesty and evil behaviors are performed with excessive hard work . This indicates that team work does not really require honest intentions. They may have been addressed as winners but brought some serious negative impacts on humanity. Team members in an evil structure contributed towards university's well-being and society as a whole. Their contributions mainly include:

-Increase in students’ applications
-Increase in profit
-Increase in university’s ranking

-Increase in positive feedback by the students

-Increase in evil contribution towards society

-Increase in oppressing the minority rights

-Increase in oppressing the hardworking students appeared during the test

-Increase in oppressing the hardworking and honest employees
-Increase in creation of lobbies
-Increase in back-stabbing and politics

In natural sciences, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction but does that hold true for social sciences as well?

A manifested realism verifies that citizens of the country belonging to either private or public sector, from any status class or from any scientific or social field are exposed to communication and dealing. Either excessively or insufficiently/ extrovertly or introvertly; a student, an employee, a politician, a business man, a servant, a priest, a victim all communicates and deals with people in their melting pots. The dealing with the world is a psychodynamic nexus in reciprocation to unrighteous and righteous behavioural settings.

Every human on the planet has similar reactions based on the command of his organic self-perception knowledge e.g. good would be taken as good and bad as bad until evil temptations occur and changes the natural mind settings into deliberate virtue transgression. Therefore, does human behavior always have equivalent reaction to every action e.g. to kindness as being kind, to cruelty as being cruel, to wickedness as being wicked, to destruction as being destructive and will such ‘’behavioral equations’’ are justified?

To answer this, one might get into much more inquisitiveness; for instance is raising voice against injustice is violence? Is giving reasoning for a failure should be interpreted as an excuse for non-accomplishment? Is defending oneself is a weak reaction to questioning? Is talking about your right publicly shows you’re aggressive? Is giving up always show weakness? Is the attitude for the rich should be arrogance? Is the attitude for the poor should be merciful?

An insight to this concept absolutely smashes the balanced behavioral equation to the highest degree. But how? Lets review the different human roles on the planet. For example, a competent employee witness enormous politics in an organizational set-up for a long time which has affected his promotion and recognition rewards. He decides to talk to his boss about it but boss refuses all the evidences he puts forward because he trusts the majority staff’s opinion over him and disregard what the employee says. Employee now have two ways to handle politics either to surrender and be part of the politics by playing politics in return or be a whistleblower and act against injustice. If he starts playing politics the reasons could be the job insecurity, the status quo, the tangible respect for the position he holds in society, the salary he receives at the end of the month and the internal psychodynamic weakness to be an evil to handle evil. If he fights back the politics, the reasons could be being truthful, to raise voice against injustice, to break the unjust system. Whatever he chooses between the two options; the different number of reasoning itself proves that there is no such thing as monotonousness of a human reaction to the environmental influences, attacks and welcomes.

In another instance, suppose a nation has been suffering a barbaric ruler for 50 years and their ancestors died bemoaning but could not remonstrate to make him step down, it further has undergone unemployment, inflation, excessive taxation, ruined facilities, ruined infrastructure, tarnished image, rising poverty rates and other derogatory occurrences. If the nation under effective leader supervision, come on roads fighting for their rights and repeatedly perform such an act until their demands are fulfilled; does that really mean the nation is not democratically right, lacks vision, lacks acceptance of the government as a whole, or are they collectively violent influenced by the current reverberating effect of collective protest intellectualism? The whole nation protestation for their rights has dominance over creating a collective change which fosters new ideologies and new mind sets as an achievement consequence. So in this very case, every action or step taken by the brutal and barbaric government for snatching rights must have an equal reaction by the nation in the form of immense expostulation. However, can we also propose that democracy is always right and people exactly know whom they are to elect? The whole world population has different religions or no religions, have different perceptions and different ways of doing things; suppose if the whole planet population had to elect one president of the entire world; were they able to have consensus in doing so? Apparently no! Because of the excessive diversification in views and thinking patterns which is further translated into religions, cultures and lifestyles. Islamic history states that many prophets were rejected by the people of their times but prophets were themselves right in their originality. Therefore, democracy is always not the answer in times of collective ignorance and in a structure of corruption and deceit.

In conclusion, we may confirm that similar to natural sciences; social sciences explain the same principle of having an equal and opposite reaction to every action rather than only equalized reactions to behavioral actions.