Conflict Managed Ep 203, Flow States: Focus, Clarity, Creativity, and Better Work
This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Steven Puri. Together we explore:
- What flow states are and how and why to enter them
Work should be measured by effect, not location or time spent - Establishing your company culture
- Leadership is seeing what someone has to offer and creating the conditions for it to emerge
- How full do others perceive their glass to be (rather than how full it actually is)?
- Building space for creativity
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Steven Puri is the Founder and CEO of The Sukha Company with the mission to help millions of people find their focus, achieve more and have a healthy work life.
Steven's career started as a newscaster/interviewer for the #1 youth news show in the DC/Baltimore market (on WTTG-TV) and then as a junior software engineer & Thomas J. Watson Scholar at IBM. After attending USC in Los Angeles, he began working in film production and produced computer-generated visual effects for 14 movies including Independence Day which won the Academy Award for Visual Effects.
Steven’s first tech company was Centropolis Effects that produced those CGI effects, and he eventually sold it to the German media conglomerate Das Werk when he was 28.
Steven then produced some indie films and eventually went studio-side to develop and produce live-action features as a VP of Development & Production at 20th Century Fox (running the Die Hard and Wolverine franchises) and an EVP at DreamWorks Pictures for Kurtzman-Orci Productions (Star Trek 11, Transformers 1&2, Eagle Eye, Transformers: Prime, et al.).
After Fox, Steven returned to building tech companies and had two failed start-ups before founding The Sukha Company - ‘sukha’ means ‘happiness from self-fulfillment’ in Sanskrit. The Sukha is a focus app that bundles all the tools necessary to enter into a Flow State and a have healthy, productive workday.
Steven now lives in Austin, TX.
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.