Update: via the Creative Class Blog: Creativity ranks as the number one most important leadership quality for business success, according to a new study by IBM.

I'm a little dubious, for all of the reasons most of your readers would know.

My guess is that the first reaction to a bit of creativity in many workplaces is still "aren't you the strange one?" or "Do you not understand the objective(s) and project?". Or the many variations thereof ...