What if you, as a leader were instructed to behave against your natural leadership style? What if you had to make all your decisions based on the description of one of Lewin’s leadership styles? Now, this is exactly what we asked from a group of people to do: they had to play Fligby and make…
Category: FLIGBY
FLIGBY in the context of entrepreneurship classes
Dr. Fernando Almeida, and Dr. Zoltan Buzady, Director of our ‘Leadership & Flow Global Research Network’ have launched the first cooperation in 2017. The cooperation covers a pilot teaching project using FLIGBY online leadership development game on Master of Science Program in Portugal in the field of Science and Technology. You can read our brief…
What I learned comparing my highest FLIGBY skills vs my signature strengths
This article is from our guest author: Pilar Reyes Recently a friend of mine (Ale Leon) introduced me to FLIGBY; she said it was a game about leadership and flow, created by Prof. Csikszentmihalyi and ALEAS Simulations Inc. Last year I studied a Masters in Positive Leadership, based on Positive Psychology that is the scientific study of…
Fligby as an asset for entrepreneurship students
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…
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…
Machiavelli Vs. Csikszentmihályi: Go-get it leadership or flow leadership
Once in a position of power, does a leader focus solely on a goal, regardless of the impact on subordinates, or does a leader focus on the subordinates in order to successfully attain that same goal? There are various influential thinkers who have shared their theories as to what is the correct type of leadership,…
Power to the people and how it appears in the world of FLIGBY
Power. The word itself carries a reputation with it. Is power a bad thing, is it true that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely? Or rather, does it depend on the type of power used. By definition, power is one’s ability to exert influence over other people’s actions, more specifically, to get…
Game-based Leadership Profiling
A methodology of establishing leadership skill profile using gameplay data The mission of the serious game FLIGBY is to identify, measure, and help develop leadership skills. At the Game’s end, FLIGBY provides an individual report to each player on his/her skillset, with a range of benchmarking option available. In FLIGBY, each player‘s leadership profile is…