Corey Keyes

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The dashboard was green. Every light, every metric, every indicator I knew how to read said the same thing: we were winning.

Twenty engineers in Trivandrum producing at levels that would have required hundreds six months earlier. Napster Station built in thirty days. A book drafted on a transatlantic flight. Revenue climbing. Output exploding. The numbers were extraordinary, and they were real, and I trusted them the way a pilot trusts instruments.

Corey Keyes would have asked me a question that does not appear on any instrument panel I have ever monitored: Were those engineers flourishing?

Not performing. Not engaged. Not "not burned out." Flourishing. A specific, measurable state that requires the simultaneous presence of emotional well-being, psychological well-being, and social well-being — three dimensions that