Conducting Flow: A Quantitative Correlational Study of Music Conductor Leadership Traits in Millennial Business Managers (Doctoral Dissertation in Educational Leadership, 2024)

by: Corey Ames Ed.D. Abstract Individuals born between 1981 and 1996 are expected to be the dominant generation in the workforce by 2025. The problem is conventional leadership applications seem unrelated to the millennial generation’s need for workplace autonomy and adapting to volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous conditions. There is a gap in information about…

FLIGBY's academic publications

List of Our Most Important Academic Publications

FLIGBY’s academic publications: The Leadership & Flow Global Research Network promotes academic cooperation, research, and publication in the broader fields related to Flow and Leadership theory, as well as the usage of Serious Games in teaching and training, skills measurement and HR predictive analytics. Most publications below are also enabled and driven by FLIGBY, Prof.…

Csikszentmihalyi’s Good Business – Flow and Leadership

Professor Csikszentmihalyi’s Good Business is more than a bestseller book. It’s rather a guide for anyone who values the positive contributions of individuals in the changing world of business. Prof. Csikszentmihalyi, who introduced the concept of “Flow”, extends its application in his book “Good Business” to the role of business in society. Csikszentmihalyi describes “Good Business” as a guidance for…

Musician Flow Component

A New Approach to Promoting Flow in the Workplace Today’s leaders face an insurmountable challenge of retaining high-quality employees. Not only are volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) situations arising, the workforce is embarking on a generational shift with significant implications for the effectiveness of more traditional and transactional leadership styles. When observing the sustainable…

The Harmony of Climate and Culture

An Audience Perspective on Leadership Flow Impact The complexities of leadership often go unnoticed. When attending the performance of a symphony orchestra, there is often a visual understanding that the positive climate and culture a conductor creates with their musicians produces the highest quality of music (Meals, 2020). On one such occasion, I had the…

EEG to better fit the player’s skill level – enabling a stable Flow state in a serious game

Using EEG data as Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in a serious game about plastic pollution in the oceans DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3582515.3609512 By: Thomas Bjørner, Associate Professor and Head of Media Innovation & Game Research, Aalborg University. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9071-7168 In: Bjørner, T. (2023). Using EEG data as Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in a serious game about the plastic pollution in…

Wishing for Happiness? But is your faith misplaced?

In the present time, two categories of individuals hold the clearest title to providing for the material and spiritual needs of the community. But is your faith misplaced? Prof. Mihály, CSÍKSZENTMIHÁLYI, “GOOD BUSINESS” Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning, 2003 As a first step, we should consider what it has meant to be a…

#KOKPAR Meaningful Life, Flow-Happiness in Kazakh Fine Art

Conference Presentation delivered at the 2023 CEEMAN Annual Conference, held at Almaty Management University ALMAU, September 2023. Author: Zoltan Buzady, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary Abstract: We present the core elements of the Flow phenomenon, which is a central concept of positive psychology and a possible answer to what makes modern life…

Habilitation by Dr. Zoltan Buzady

Scientific achievements and academic findingsDr. Zoltan Buzady Prof. Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and ManagementFounder, Co-Director, Quality of Life Research Center Ph.D., Psychology, University of Chicago, Creativity and innovation, Flow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is Claremont Graduate University’s Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management. He is also the founder and co-director of the Quality of…

Leadership & Flow Reading Collection by Dr. Zoltan Buzady

Dear Colleagues, Course Participants & Friends, You may wish to follow my curated reading collections on FLIPBOARD: Lead, Learn, Leapfrog – Buzady’s Collection on Leadership Trends and Tips Essentials on Flow, Leadership Development, and Serious Games The Future of Work ПОТОК via #FLIGBY in Russian version