About 150-200 years ago when people died at a younger age (around 40-60) and the yearly technical advancement wasn’t that significant, it didn’t cause any problems for generations to work together. It was obvious that everyone starts at the bottom at a young age and works him/herself up on the ladder by learning and perfecting the tricks of…
Category: Leadership Skills
Think and act like a leader – aka: managerial skills don’t have gender
Women are taught “male” leadership as well in the business world, but as soon as they start acting according to what they studied, they are called the “B” word. Its softer translation is bossy. Studies are coming to light almost every single day proving that a woman can have just as great leadership skills as…
Games can make you a better strategist…
…or at least this is what Martin Reeves and Georg Wittenburg state in their article published in Harvard Business Review (September 7, 2015). Now, before anyone would close this blog spot (or their leadership book) and log on to Facebook to play Farmville, I’ve got to disappoint you: that’s not the game they are talking…
FLIGBY Leadership Skills
Developing leadership competencies by serious games The mission of the serious game FLIGBY is to identify, measure, and help develop leadership skills that, if applied, would help create a Flow-promoting work environment. At the Game’s end, FLIGBY provides an individual report to each player on his/her skill set, with a range of benchmarking option available.…
The Circle of Flow
The “Circle of Flow” shows the many-fold, life-long impacts of value-based leadership. The starting as well as the end-point is Csikszentmihalyi’s landmark Flow theory, the inexhaustible fount of outstanding individual and organizational achievements. As we proceed along life’s “circular flow”, a broad new vista emerges. From observers we become decision-makers, who will more and more experience…
Predictive People Analytics
Predictive people analytics is an emerging science and practice to make predictions of how key people, like managers, would behave under plausible future scenarios. “The latest data and analytics buzz comes from the field of advanced HR analytics, where the application of new techniques and new thinking to talent management is becoming more mainstream.” –…
“Missing Link Discovered” Leadership Forum with Prof. Csikszentmihalyi – Part 2
An edited transcript of the Forum held by CEU Business School MISSING LINK DISCOVERED: Planting Csíkszentmihályi’s Flow Theory into Management and Leadership Practice held on Monday, November 9, 2015, CEU AUDITORIUM, Budapest V, Nádor u. 9. The contributors were co-authors of the Missing Link Discovered book together with Prof. Csikszentmihalyi: Paul Marer, Prof. of Business, CEU Business School…
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…
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…
Is there only “one ideal profile” for leadership?
An article by Willian Bull, partner at Instituto Pieron, Sao Paulo It is very common to find behavioral approaches to the leadership role referring exclusively to certain “ideal profiles”, or to a certain psychological type as the most suitable for the leadership role. I think so. There are certain traits (“background skills or internal…