The industrial revolution brought about a shift of work from the farm to the factory. Only a few were managers making decisions. Most workers used their hands. Henry Ford even once lamented, “Why is ...

Imagination is a powerful force—it can transport you to the most wondrous places or lead you into the depths of the unknown. The ability to see beyond the present separates great leaders from the rest ...

Human minds evolved to accomplish incredible feats of cognition and computation — but they also evolved to wander. The imagination is often held up as a totem of our species’ uniqueness, a thing that ...

Imagination is a deeply human tendency. We spend a significant portion of our conscious lives in the realm of imagination (e.g., daydreaming, mind wandering). Imagination occupies an important place ...

Imagine a barking dog, a furry spider or another perceived threat and your brain and body respond much like they would if you experienced the real thing. Imagine it repeatedly in a safe environment ...

A conversation with BCG’s Martin Reeves on encouraging imagination at work. Martin Reeves, managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute, has looked at how ...

The work of becoming faithful people happens in ways that can’t easily be measured. For generations, people have lamented the decline of biblical literacy—the fact that many people don’t know basic ...

This is an edited excerpt from The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity, published by Zed Books June 2014. In this book, we try to better understand the way that the ...

When we spend so much of our time online, we're bound to learn something while clicking and scrolling. Discover something new with Mashable's series I learned it on the internet. On a summer Friday a ...