Earlier this spring, futurist and innovation thinker Jim Carroll penned the Masters of Business Imagination Manifesto. In it, he details what he considers the abilities that innovative leaders need:

• see things differently
• spur creativity in other people
• focus on opportunity, not threat
• refuses to accept the status quo
• bring ideas to life
• has the skill to learn and unlearn
• refuses to say the word "can't"
• accepts challenges with passion and enthusiasm
• embraces change rather than shying away from it
• listens to people who are different then them
• lives for the opportunity to have ideas challenged and debated
• instead of saying "it won't work," asks the question, "how can we make it work?"