An interview with Dr. Fernando Almeida, Engineer/Professor of the Polytechnic Higher Institute of Gaya Prepared by Dr. Zoltan Buzady, Director of the Global Leadership & Flow Network Dr. Almeida, you are a top scientist in your field of Science & Technology and now teach also Entrepreneurship. What are your observations when using FLIGBY as a platform to help…
Category: Blended Learning
Teaching Blue Ocean
The FLIGBY lab was contacted recently by one of our North American academic partners to find a way for using FLIGBY teaching Blue Ocean concept. Since FLIGBY was used already for explaining and demonstrating many different leadership approaches, we were happy to help to create a comprehensive syllabus for the “Blue Ocean” class too. Teaching Blue Ocean –…
Don’t play with it – DO take it serious
An interview with Peter Szabo, Requirement Area Manager at Ericsson Why did you decide to play FLIGBY? We are all sort-of “Homo Ludens”-species. That is why the gamification principle has been so interesting to me and seems to be very successful nowadays. This might have led the creators of FLIGBY – Csikszentmihalyi’s Official Leadership Development…
Perspective of an undergraduate student playing FLIGBY
I am a 19-year-old student enrolled in an International Politics and Government program at Bocconi University. This summer I was searching for an internship opportunity to gain experience and came across a wonderful team working with flow theory, and a serious game called FLIGBY. Before starting the internship, I was encouraged to complete the FLIGBY…
Flow, Leadership and Serious Games: A Pedagogical Perspective – Part 3
By: Zoltan Buzady Ph.D., Central European University Business School, Hungary. Part 1 Part 2 Serious Gaming Technology Enables Blended Learning Pedagogy Our aim in this contribution is also to tell the reader our experiences about using this particular serious game as a blended learning tool for effective training and development of Flow-based leadership and…
Leadership, Flow and Ethics
Last month, Prof. Paul Marer[1] – already mentioned in my previous blog entry about Good Work – gave an interesting presentation in Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Positive Psychology class at Claremont Graduate University (California). This post is an excerpt from his presentation about leadership, Flow and ethics, with an emphasis mainly on the third topic. Csikszentmihalyi…
The fish rots from the head down…
As Michael Jackson famously sang: I’m starting with the man in the mirror I’m asking him to change his ways Most company/organization leaders thrumble for a change: they want to see a cultural change at the organization, they want to see their employees being happy and jumping out from their skin out of excitement that they…
The technology of the Flow
The innovative training course by Zoltan Buzady (Hungary) for MBA in PA students was the first robin in the project of cooperation between MIM-Kyiv and Central Euroepan University Business School. Mr. Buzady kindly gave us his impressions of MIM and told us about his game. On cooperation with MIM-Kyiv: I am very pleased this project…
Why HR-Partners will be soon replaced by HR-Anticipators
“What is the new role of HR?” – “Being a Strategic Business Partner, of course!” – “Good heavens, NO! Wrong answer!!!” – The below post was written by: Dr. Zoltan Buzady Although my primary interest is leadership and personal development, the innovative usage of emerging new simulation technologies in management training and applications of serious gaming, often…
Using serious games at university courses vs. corporate training projects
Last week I held a very interesting interview with Dr. Zoltan Buzady, who – beside being an experienced and acknowledged professor of Management & Leadership Development at CEU Business School, Hungary – is Managing Director of the global ‘Leadership & Flow Research Program and Network’, organized in cooperation with ALEAS Simulations Inc. He has vast…