Earlier in my career, I’d automatically have said something like: being in a weightless state, without time and space, completely zoned in on what I’m doing. Someone even compared flow to the state of deep meditation or when a religious person prays.
And this is for sure a lovely state to be in. But it’s pretty much a local optimum.
As I gathered more experience, I found myself more drawn to flow at the organisational level: value that is created and moves from start to finish. Starting from the customer’s perspective, having no or few hand overs, doing the work to the very end so that it creates impact.
To me, that’s a far more interesting form of flow. Even lovelier and more important since it’s done though collaboration. Much more of a global optimum.
Tell me, what’s your version of flow?
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