SKF

If you can dream it, you can do it.
- Walt Disney
One day training program was organized yesterday at SKF Training center on 'Competency', in which lot of stuff on research work done by Harvard Psychologist David McClelland was shared by Abhijit Pendse and Sonali Mungale.
During the program, Camillo Mascarenhas. one of the participant bought out a interesting aspect on components of a person contributing to be a leader. As this site is more towards sharing of Leadership aspects, I felt it is relevant to share.
The whole idea was to measure 'Competence' of an individual by means of various tools. There, Camillo expressed his learning from a book which states,there are three components to be measured.
Memory: Most of the written exams are focused on measuring this. One can measure by conventional way of exam of what you remember.
Reasoning: Measuring 'Reasoning' is relatively difficult but can be done more or less accurately. 'Test of reasoning' in different forms is used by many organizations.
Imagination: Most difficult to measure.
'Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory' - Les Brown
If we try to understand a bit further and analyze, Memory can be developed and aptitude for Reasoning can improve. 'IMAGINATION' is the ability which one is born with.
As Albert Einstein quoted 'The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination', Imagination is the first step which separates extraordinary from ordinary.