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• Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.

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  Respect, Business, Organization

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.126, Penguin

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• Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.

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  Happiness, Desire, Would Be

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.27, Penguin

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• As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

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  Long, Feel Good, Easy

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.

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  Trying, Chance, Talent

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.130, Penguin

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• Socializing is more positive than being alone, that's why meetings are so popular. People don't like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn.

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  Like Being Alone, Skills, People

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• To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.

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  Goal, Overcoming, Performances

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• We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration.

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  Fate, Destiny, Rare Occasion

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard the quality of immediate experience, and base their motivation instead on the strongly rooted cultural stereotype of what work is supposed to be like. They think of it as an imposition, a constraint, an infringement of their freedom, and therefore something to be avoided as much as possible.

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  Motivation, Mean, Thinking

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

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  Depression, Average, Television

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• Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.

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  Discipline, People, Way

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions, of the stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now.

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  Jobs, Community, Greed

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.9, Penguin

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• Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.

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  Growth, Progress, Doe

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• ..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options.

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  Believe, Practice, People

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.

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  Organization, Goal, Focus

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.75, Penguin

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• Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making machines whose only reason for existing is to satisfy escalating expectation for immediate gain.

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  Jobs, Business, Responsibility

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.14, Penguin

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• Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.

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  Optimal, Happens

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful.

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  Life, Sometimes, Painful

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.

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  Thinking, Hands, People

  "Creating Purpose" by Jen Grisanti, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

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  Children, Discipline, Resentment

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• The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

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  Psychics, Feelings, Peculiar

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• You yourself are in an ecstatic state to such a point that you feel as though you almost don't exist. I've experienced this time and again. My hand seems devoid of myself, and I have nothing to do with what is happening. I just sit there watching in a state of awe and wonderment. And it just flows out by itself.

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  Time, Hands, Justice

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• 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.

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  Helping, Improvement, Minutes

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.15, Penguin

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• Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.

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  Agreement, Mind, Church

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

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  People, Payoff, Site

  "Go with the flow". Interview with John Geirland, www.wired.com. September 1, 1996.

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• And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

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  Creativity, Years, Creating

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