Some conference room tables boast bowls of candy or a gaggle of diminutive bottles of water. Others, painfully benign centerpieces, like a vase filled with colored glass beads. But when the Chronicle Books publishing team visited Lego’s headquarters in Billund, Denmark, they were delighted to discover Lego bricks at every gathering point instead. 

“The Lego headquarters in Billund are spectacular and purposely designed to foster creativity and play at work—every conference room, table, and workspace has a bowl of Lego elements available to help employees build through their challenges and think with their hands,” says Brittany McInerney, Chronicle Books’ associate editorial director for entertainment. “Everyone we met seemed to center their daily jobs on the core company goals of creativity and play. It was so inspiring, but also left us asking: How do they do that? How do you sustain that level of creativity when it’s your everyday job?”

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