On the internet, if you can tune yourself out from all the noise and intentionally navigate into the dark forest of information, you will eventually arrive at the very frontiers of whatever it is you’re working on. The cutting edge of your field. This, I must admit, is quite hard but universally possible on the open web.
At NWORX, our goal is to make it the prime destination on the internet for the best of Everything on Leadership. The most comprehensive resource informed by our many years of experience and our creative work synthesizing ideas from thought leaders across many fields. For this, we setup our “Lighthouse” in the digital and the physical world.
In our explorations, we did discover some crucial ideas in deep corners of the Internet. Ideas that helped us pen down our deepest intuitions. One such essay was titled “Contextual Flow” by one, relatively-obscure writer and philosopher Zat Rana.
If you’re not the familiar with the idea of Flow States, it is what psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s famously describes to be the optimal human experience, after decades of research studying both regular and high-achieving people. Zat’s ingenious move was to extend Mihaly’s concept of Flow States to explain it as the only practical measure for optimizing Life against abstract ideas of success, happiness, money, impact, etc. all of which only exist in an imagined future. Zat’s creative move deconstructs all of life to the Present: the immediate experience of your Life, of which Flow States can then be the North Star.
As we expanded upon this insight in the context of Leadership development in our previous essay, we found it to be the only real, non-vanity way to “measure” and develop Leadership performance. In this essay, we will show you how we go about doing that: the NWORX Practice.
At NWORX, we focus on the direct-experience of a Leader which makes our approach highly contextual to an individual’s needs. This contextualization is popularly understood to be inversely proportional to scalability. But it changes today. In our efforts to develop leadership, we virtually manage to show up at your place of work and do not leave without ensuring you are effective in your Leadership responsibilities. And with our design, we can deploy this highly contextual approach at scale.
