Getting into "the Flow" – Yarigai – Ikigai – Lebensfreude
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- Published: Tuesday, 08 May 2018 12:00
I was still digesting Yuval Harari’s book “Homo Deus” when I started to read Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book “Flow - Psychology of happiness”. Yuval illustrates the enormous progress we humans have made in all areas; technical, medical, social and economic, yet he notes that we have barely progressed on the human happiness scale.
Mihaly’s research shows what it takes to make us humans happy. He uses the term “flow” to describe how people feel when they are fully engaged in or in “the zone” with what they are doing. People are so absorbed that time seems to no longer exist, they forget to eat, drink, and even sleep. Mihaly describes the required conditions for people to get into flow and hence happiness. He also demonstrates that happiness can be achieved through flow independent of one’s external circumstances.
It shouldn’t be this hard by Ken Snyder
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- Published: Sunday, 17 December 2017 12:00
Are you struggling with Lean implementation? I’d like to share a blog by Ken Snyder that may be of help. For more Lean insights, join us at the Shingo Conference in Florida in April.
On the road again
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- Published: Tuesday, 03 October 2017 12:00
It doesn’t seem very long since my previous trip but I find myself on the road again. Perth is the most isolated capital city in the world so once you leave for your trip, might as well make the most of it. I am visiting several continents with three main agendas: clients, goGermline, and Lean.
Lean – an objective or intersubjective reality?
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- Published: Tuesday, 15 August 2017 12:00
A friend of mine asked recently: “What do you want me to present at a Lean conference?” I suggested to discuss “What is Lean?”. This is because I have an ongoing dilemma with continuous improvement (CI) frameworks such as Lean, Operational Excellence, TPS etc.
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Blog Archive
- Getting into "the Flow" – Yarigai – Ikigai – Lebensfreude
- It shouldn’t be this hard by Ken Snyder
- On the road again
- Lean – an objective or intersubjective reality?
- Aloha - taking a break from Organisational Excellence
- Handel, Toyota and Homo Deus
- Be mindful at the gemba
- Good news
- Happy travelling
- Ask questions, be curious in 2017…
- Blogs of 2016
- Response from Sensei-San
- Beware of kankotsu
- Balancing curiosity
- Curiosity
- Post-it pandemonium
- Leaning (on) our healthcare system
- Jishu-what?
- Eureka moment published
- Order within chaos
- Lessons from ants
- 2015 in numbers
- to advance humanity – inspire curiosity
- Lean journey to Shingo
- Mindfulness
- Ozgene's Big History Project
- The Big History Project
- To baldly advance humanity
- Measuring what you manage
- I’m shaving it off!
- Phenotyping – mouse making and beyond
- Lessons learnt from Clients
- Growing company by growing people
- Who said a Lean year was a bad thing?
- Tick-tock goes the Clock
- What does an F1 tyre change have to do with KO mice?
- The Lean Ozgene story… so far
- Going on a globetrot for goGermline
- Greetings from Japan!
- Absolutely fabulously awesome!
- Why?
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