Leadership in the Imagination Age

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Leadership in the Imagination Age

Navigating Unprecedented Possibilities and Moral Challenges

Business strategy Management: leadership and motivation Personnel and human resources management Organizational theory and behaviour

Author: S. M. A. Moin

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Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 31st July 2026

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9781040889992


Leadership in a Transformed World

This book reframes leadership for a world transformed by AI, accelerating technologies, and planetary fragility. It argues that leadership is no longer about control or optimisation but about orientation: knowing what matters, sensing direction, and acting with moral courage when certainty collapses. In this new era, inherited formulas fall short. What leaders need instead is disciplined imagination – curiosity expansive enough to explore new possibilities, yet grounded enough to stay accountable to human consequence.

Leadership as Stewardship and Storytelling

The book invites readers to see leaders as stewards, not owners; organisations as living systems, not machines; and leadership as an act of storytelling. Every story a leader tells shapes the world – connecting or fragmenting, regenerating or extracting, widening horizons or narrowing them. Drawing on leadership theory, systems thinking, ethics, narrative art, futures studies, and spiritual wisdom, the book blends rigorous insight with poetic depth, urging leaders to listen more deeply, imagine more boldly, and act with integrity.

Guiding Frameworks

At its core are three navigational frameworks – the Leadership Compass, the Moral Gyroscope, and Cosmic Leadership – guiding leaders at all levels and across disciplines through purpose, people, performance, possibility, and ethics. Ultimately, the book poses a provocative question: when machines can optimise almost everything, what remains unmistakably human about leadership?

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