Review: Flow: The Phsychology of Optimal Experience

In this book, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, discusses how experiences can either preserve or drain energy from those within an experience. I first became interested in this book to apply it to my experience in software interface design. Though I find the concepts are highly applicable to workplace management as well as to programming interface design.

I characterize Flow as the preservation of momentum and expectation. When experiences meet expectations and reduce resistance by being predicable and efficient. Experiences include users of software, programmers using a language or library, or employees within a team. When people are within an experience they build momentum as their expectations are met with success. Conversely, the loose momentum when expectations are met with failure or resetting of state.

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Review: The Three Signs of a Miserable Job

This is the first book I have read from Patric Lencioni and I and entirely pleased with it. The fable format in which the book is written helps to tie together aspects of both "energetic" workplaces and "miserable" workplaces. It is an excellent forum for presenting scenarios, options, and outcomes.

For anyone interested in understanding how they can make their workplace experience more enjoyable for themselves and others, I highly recommend this book.

I asure you I will read more of Patrick's books soon. More from Patrick Lencioni

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