Frankly, you can only create them via the process of assessing, developing and sustaining them, immediately after recognising them in the first place. 

Just as the late creativity maestro Dr Edward de Bono, often acknowledged as the Father of Lateral Thinking, put it: 

"The reasons that many opportunities pass us by is a perceptual one - we do not recognise an opportunity for what it is. An opportunity exists only when we see it." ... 

"Everyone is surrounded by opportunities. But they only exist once they have been seen. And they will only be seen if they are looked for."! 

He added: 

"If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd." ... 

"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."! 

His parting shot: 

"Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas."! 

These astute observations of his reinforce the fact that enhancing one's perceptual sensitivity to the world is a critical leadership as well as entrepreneurial issue, when it comes to recognising and creating opportunities.