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Apr. 20--EARNING A LIVING AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: "Good Business" is the latest product of the "flow" industry, centered on the work of psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. More than 10 years ago Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced chick-sent-me-hi) defined the concept of "flow," and he's been extending and refining the idea ever since. A professor at the Drucker Graduate School of Management at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif., Csikszentmihalyi is now attempting to apply

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