How micromanaging interrupts the flow in you as a leader and in your subordinates? What steps help to promote flow at work? Are there any circumstances when micromanaging is not only allowed but desirable? First of all please, allow me to be a bit personal here: I look at timesheet if it were my enemy.…
Emotions: do they help you to “flow” or drag you down?
Have you ever experienced that simply just knowing every bit of your job is not enough to excel at your workplace? What else might be needed beside deep knowledge and high intelligence to experience that rewarding state of mind that described as Flow? Have you ever met people who you admired for their expertise but…
Virtues, Happiness, Flow and Joy – The Moral Bucket List
The New York Times Sunday Review published David Brooks’ writing “The Moral Bucket List”. He is setting the context by: ABOUT once a month I run across a person who radiates an inner light. These people can be in any walk of life. They seem deeply good. They listen well. They make you feel funny…
The Theory of “Flow’ and Its Relevance for Organizations
By: Zoltan Buzady and Paul Marer, March 2016In: CEU Working Paper SeriesDownload full working paper here. Abstract: The objective of this essay is to identify how leadership based on the principles of Flow theory, if applied, helps create a Flow-promoting work environment and leads to better organizational performance.Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of Flow – globally known, appreciated, and…
Why winery?
A first-class winery game. Why did we choose a Californian winery as the venue of FLIGBY simulation? First of all, we needed a good story which was able to capture people’s imagination of course. But there is more to it. Prof. Csikszentmihalyi himself proposed the subject of a winery back in 2008. He had two…
The concept of Flow not only originates from but now also inspires young artists
“FLOW” from Menno Wisselink is an inspiring 3 minutes art-video. He writes: “My graduation project is a short movie about the feeling Flow. I started judo when I was 5 years old. From that time I experienced moments were time would stand still, and at the same, flies by. Moments of total joy and intense happiness. Such…
Do you want to know what Flow is? Read or Watch!
Do you want to know what Flow is? If your vote is for watching (‘5): If your vote is for reading, in our new book “Missing Link Discovered“, we wrote a whole chapter on “The Science Behind Flow”. The following is an extract from From Chapter 1: In Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s own words: “My original research, which I still do,…
Flow & Creativity, Leadership & Management, Science & Best Practices
Flow and Creativity, Leadership and Management, Science and Best Practices are increasingly interrelated areas of our daily lives, of our heightened interest and awareness and the subject of ever increasing scholarly attention, focus and research. So we have decided to use the Blog platform of Flowleadership.org to collect and re-post some of the most interesting…
Manage your work, live your life
Work-life balance is not a rule set in stone but more like a concept that is different for every individual and might change on a daily basis. What work-life balance really means? Does it mean that you have to adhere to the 8 hours of work, 8 hours of fun and 8 hours of sleep…
Defining Serious Games
Defining serious games: A serious game is typically an online application that makes use of the mechanisms of video games to communicate specific information (knowledge) that helps introduce relevant concepts and the application of those concepts to solve problems. Serious games differ from classical video games in that their primary objective is not entertainment but…