Excerpt from the “Missing Link Discovered” book In addition to FLIGBY’s impressive credentials as a game-based leadership teaching and training tool, the Game has also offers a unique data pool, a databank generated by thousands of player decisions linked to skill measures, ready to be exploited for academic research purposes. Below we outline why…
How Flow was discovered
Excerpt from the “Missing Link Discovered” book Let’s say a little more about how Flow was discovered, and place it in a broader context. First, based on thousands of carefully structured interviews and the measurement of what might be called the “state of mind” of many volunteer individuals over long periods – as they…
FLIGBY as a blended learning solution
FLIGBY is the official Leadership Development Program of Professor Csikszentmihalyi. But it can be far more than a serious game or learning experience on an individual level. In order to achieve better results, traditional training tools can be attached to the simulation. This helps to turn the individual learning process into a communal or group experience. It…
Meet Zoltan Buzady
Zoltan is the Leader of the “Leadership&Flow” Management Board
Branched Simulation Scenarios
Choose-your-own learning adventure FLIGBY is a scenario-based learning program —also known as problem-based learning or whole task learning—with a highly interactive course design that puts the learner in the role of a problem solver responding to realistic workplace problems or situations. The leadership simulation’s lessons are built around a series of progressively complex workplace assignments or…
Life of an extraordinary business person
FLIGBY’s player takes on the role of the General Manager (GM) of an imaginary midsize wine business in California. As the recently appointed GM of the “Turul Winery“, the player faces the challenging task of having to achieve a state of harmony and co-operation in a team significantly weakened by internal conflicts. This great adventure takes the player actually to the…
Soft Leadership Skills
An article by Zoltan Buzady, Associate Professor, CEU Business School This Dilbert cartoon alludes to the so often mentioned “soft” skills not only needed for good management and leadership, but probably the essence of being sustainable success. “Soft” in contrast to “Hard”? Hard skills typically would include quantitative methodologies such as statistical calculations, accounting…
Value-based Leadership
To be an effective manager/leader is undeniably complex. One must simultaneously perform well in multiple dimensions and reconcile contradictory issues: the urgent with the important, quantity with quality, operational with strategic decisions, the short-run with the long-run, and so on. However, beyond these important dilemmas lies one incontrovertible fact: today, effective leadership depends not just…
Sport and Work
An article by Willian Bull, partner at Instituto Pieron, Sao Paulo To what extend does the sport practice influence the professional role? Usually, the sport practitioner, when physically and emotionally well prepared, participating in a race or during his/her workout, enters a state we call Flow. In this condition, there is a lot of focus,…
About the tragedy of choice
The other day I came across with Michael Crooke, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Robert Bikel article titled Leadership in a Complex World: How to Manage ‘‘The Tragedy of Choice’’ (Organizational Dynamics, Volume 44, Issue 2, April–June 2015, Pages 146–155). The article states no less than: “even when a company is committed to its core values, tension between values…