Flow Is Hard To Achieve Without Effort.

A Paycheck Is A Sufficient Impetus To Motivate Some Employees To Do The Minimum Amount To Get By, And For Others, The Challenge Of Getting Ahead In The Organization Provides A Satisfactory Focus For A While. But These Incentives Alone Are Rarely Strong Enough To Inspire Workers To Give Their Best To Their Work. For This A Vision Is Needed, An Overarching Goal That Gives Meaning To The Job, So That An Individual Can Forget Himself In The Task And Experience Flow Without Doubts Or Regrets. The Most Important Component Of Such A Vision Is An Ingredient We Call Soul.

If We Know What That Set Point Is, We Can Predict Fairly Accurately When You Will Be In Flow, And It Will Be When Your Challenges Are Higher Than Average And Skills Are Higher Than Average.

There Are Managers So Preoccupied With Their E-mail Messages That They Never Look Up From Their Screens To See What's Happening In The Nondigital World

One Cannot Lead A Life That Is Truly Excellent Without Feeling That One Belongs To Something Greater And More Permanent Than Oneself.

We Have Learned How To Develop Five-minute And Even One-minute Managers. But We Would Do Better To Ask Ourselves What It Takes To Be An Executive Who Helps Build A Better Future.