My 25+ years of practice leadership development and management theory make me share with you what is the most important question in life. Many of you might have read it already in one of the best books of the past 3 decades, The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1993): Given the level of habituality that…
Author: Zoltan Buzady
29 FLIGBY Skills (magyarul)
29 vezetői készség a FLIGBY alkalmazásában Buzády Zoltán és Wimmer Ágnes, Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem Értő figyelem (Active listening) – Az értő figyelem (active listening) a másik fél megértésének eszköze, tudatos koncentrálás a másik fél közléseire, aktív hallgatás és odafigyelés a beszélő gondolataira és érzelmeire, az üzenetre és annak mélyebb kontextusára. Az értő figyelem segíti az egyértelmű kommunikációt…
Stress is Dead, Long Live the Time Pressure!
It is quite common to find a job as a result of your internship. Less often it happens that a student is offered a job as a result of data collection for an MA thesis. This is exactly what happened to KADRI HANSSON, a UI/UX designer and fresh Master of Business Administration from Estonian Business…
Intelligent Optimism – A Privilege of Naïves?
Last week I followed a report on Estonian National TV on how to handle the corona crisis in our healthcare institutions. One of the doctors mentioned during her interview that she was very worried before entering the emergency room filled with corona patients for the first time, but just one look at the naturally behaving…
Do you enjoy diversity?
Once upon a time, there was a professor who enjoyed hiking in distant countries, while embracing great discussions in a good community. It is not just the heights that attract him, but most of all, he enjoys the journey itself. To be honest, this gentleman looks as if he was constantly in Flow – focused…
Simulation Game or Team Member as Teachers?
A university has been and will be a safe place and I am not speaking about being a ‘clean’ environment in the classical sense. Today’s university is a ‘safe place to fail’ as it provides students with opportunities to practice something, that one cannot learn simply by studying a book. The business game Dynama is…
Are ‘Remote Work’ and ‘Virtual Teamwork’ Synonyms?
Remote Work and Virtual Teamwork are as different as Ice Skating and Ice Hockey! Interview with Sirja Sulakatko, Virtual Teamwork enthusiast Ten years ago, the then 20-year-old Sirja had an important decision to take: While working full time in Estonia as a store manager, she had the possibility to take a 6-month internship with ADIDAS…
Let me tell you… about the CIRCLE OF FLOW
Let me tell you an important essence: Leadership development is the foundation for overcoming any of your current problems and for realizing future projects! We know about the mechanics of the concept of being in Flow works, in fact, it is not just a theory but a real, observable, and reproducible phenomenon! Flow, the optimal…
Facing ‘the new normal’ requires re-defining our existence
Head of the Department of Management and lecturer at Estonian Business School, Marge Täks has faced many changes in her life: among others switching from the corporate world to a career in academia. Nevertheless, after returning from holidays in India in March 2020 (which was also the first time she did not take a laptop…
Leadership Basics also work in times of crisis! (updated with TIPS!)
The main reason why I decided to ask for an interview from Ester Eomois, one of my TOP3 inspirators and an experienced leader, was that through the whole crisis she was the calmest and most relaxed colleague of mine. Suspicious, as I am, I wondered if she might have a secret “managerial weapon” and through…









