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.
Read it if…
you lead and want flow as an organising principle.
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Skip it if…
you want tactics; it is philosophy plus interviews.
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Three things you will actually use
- Flow at work needs clear goals, feedback and challenge.
- Good business serves a purpose beyond itself.
- Leaders create the conditions.
Do this first
Read the chapter on flow at work and audit your team's conditions.
Our verdict
Flow, for leaders.
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