Since the publication of ‘Missing Link Discovered,’ Zoltan Buzady (Ph.D., Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary) and Paul Marer (Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Hungary) have continued researching the implications of the theory of Flow for effective leadership, elaborating on and expanding the book’s first two chapters. This Working Paper is a progress report on that continuing research; the first of two…
Author: Zoltan Buzady
‘Being Boring (1990)’ – What the PetShopBoys did not know, but we do know!
One of my favorite teenage pop bands, the Pet Shop Boys, sang: ‘Cause we were never being boringWe had too much time to find for ourselvesAnd we were never being boringWe were never being bored … Well, it remains a debate if ‘being boring’ is OK or not, but ‘being bored’ is certainly recommendable! Most…
Changing consumers, changing employees – How can FLIGBY help to balance out Hyperindividualism?
Changing consumers, changing employees – In how far is FLIGBY a good answer to the latest social trends? I met the FLIGBY method to support leaders and organizations during my Ph.D. studies at the Corvinus University of Budapest. My Ph.D. research is about new phenomena in consumer behavior generated by digitalization and technological development. The…
Flow is Indeed Sustainability – the Importance of Nonviolent Communication Skills
I enrolled in the Ph.D. program of the Corvinus University of Budapest in the autumn of 2021. This was my first semester as a teacher and a young researcher. In September I still felt so much like a freshly graduated master’s student, and I was both excited (and quite stressed) about my first teaching experience.…
Protected: The 7 Habits of Happy People
How can we test improvement over time in crucial leadership skills?
The FLIGBY serious game is an interactive leadership simulation where participants’ leadership skills are reliably assessed against the 29 factors in FLIGBY’s Leadership Skillset. The competencies themselves have been rigorously defined by expert development teams and mapped to several validated competency frameworks such as the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ) System and Gallup’s StrengthsFinder framework, the…
Flow Theory, Faculty Development & Pedagogy
Dr. Zoltan Buzady, Associate Professor of Leadership, and Academic Ambassador of FLIGBY, delivered an international faculty development training and workshop series for university colleaguesFaculty members represented numerous areas of science: pedagogy, applied psychology, business, and English philology. The topics of the video interviews (below) are: What is the essence of Flow theory? Which abilities and…
The Future of Learning – video interview (8 mins)
Exploring the role of a serious game in developing competencies in higher tourism education
By Fernando Almeida, Zoltan Buzady, Ana Ferro In: Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education (Scimago rating: Q2) Volume 29, November 2021, 100347 Higher education institutions are looking for new educational models that encourage actions that contribute to the transformation of society. In the development of these competencies, the active methodologies assume a relevant role.…
Do You Remember ‘Theme Hospital’?
How could spending hours sitting in front of your games console be good for you? Increasingly advancements in technology and pedagogical thinking point to considerable rewards associated with serious games and simulations for developing business skills. But where does this thinking come from? More importantly, does this mean that losing all concept of time in…








