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Creativity has always been at the heart of business, but until now it hasn't been at the top of the management agenda. By definition the ability to create something novel and appropriate, creativity is essential to the entrepreneurship that gets new businesses started and that sustains the best companies after they have reached global scale. But perhaps because creativity was considered unmanageable-too elusive and intangible to pin down-or because concentrating on it produced a less immediate payoff than improving execution, it hasn't been the focus of most managers' attention.

We give a lot of talks and presentations about the ways and places companies and their employees learn the fastest. We call these learning environments creation spaces - places where individuals and teams interact and collaborate within a broader learning ecology so that performance accelerates.