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One of my favorite teenage pop bands, the Pet Shop Boys, sang: ‘Cause we were never being boringWe had too much time to find for ourselvesAnd we were never being boringWe were never being bored … Well, it remains a debate if ‘being boring’ is OK or not, but ‘being bored’ is certainly recommendable! Most…
An interview with Peter Szabo, Requirement Area Manager at Ericsson Why did you decide to play FLIGBY? We are all sort-of “Homo Ludens”-species. That is why the gamification principle has been so interesting to me and seems to be very successful nowadays. This might have led the creators of FLIGBY – Csikszentmihalyi’s Official Leadership Development…
Last month, Prof. Paul Marer[1] – already mentioned in my previous blog entry about Good Work – gave an interesting presentation in Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Positive Psychology class at Claremont Graduate University (California). This post is an excerpt from his presentation about leadership, Flow and ethics, with an emphasis mainly on the third topic. Csikszentmihalyi…
Have you ever wondered whether the work you, your colleagues or your subordinates do can be considered as “good work”? I think I am not the only one who actually doesn’t know what the term “good work” means. Back in the late 1990’s and the early 2000’s Prof. Csikszentmihalyi alongside with Howard Gardner and William Damon has investigated…
This blogpost contains parts of Prof. Csikszentmihalyi’s commencement speech addressed at the Colorado College in 2002. Even though this commencement address is 14 years old now, still contains ultimate truths that could serve as guiding principles of life: “Now that you are poised for this great transition, about to leave the safe for the unknown, it…