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Good Business by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — WisdomDeck honest review
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Good Business

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow applied to leadership: interviews with visionary executives on building organisations where people experience flow and the company serves something beyond profit. Thoughtful and more idealistic than most management books.

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you lead and want flow as an organising principle.

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you want tactics; it is philosophy plus interviews.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Flow at work needs clear goals, feedback and challenge.
  2. Good business serves a purpose beyond itself.
  3. Leaders create the conditions.

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Flow, for leaders.

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