https://simpleprogrammer.com/flow-state/ Flow state is something super important for programmers and, those who have entered this state know what I’m talking about. John Sonmez:Okay. Now, I know a lot of people have different ideas of what flow is, what exactly is flow? And, I mean, probably some people are watching like “I don’t even know what…
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List of Our Most Important Academic Publications
The Leadership & Flow Global Research Network promotes academic cooperation, research, and publication in the broader fields related to Flow and Leadership theory, as well as the usage of Serious Games in teaching and training, skills measurement and HR predictive analytics. Most publications below are also enabled and driven by FLIGBY, Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s official…
Leaders of People – A Poem by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The leaders of people have one of four names: Procustes, Napoleon, Sam, or Solon. Procustes believes, and his people must live behind the bars of his faith. Napoleon gambles — and win or lose – his people pay. Uncle Sam sits in a manor that resembles a store, And counts pennies, hoping for more and…
Sales Leadership, Organizational Effectiveness and Competitive Advantage via the FLOW-Factor
— Guest blog entry by Alex Ellinis— Alex has spent the last 20 years working in management and senior leadership roles across various diverse sectors that include, Travel & Tourism, Supply Chain, Transport & Logistics, Security and Civil engineering. He holds an MSc in Strategic management, a Level 8 Diploma in Leadership, a black belt in Lean…
Prof. Csikszentmihalyi versus Google
In New Leadership We Flow – Lead4Skills
A recent International Labour Organization study “Skills mismatch in Europe study 2014”, shows that labour market in Europe demonstrates various types of skill mismatch, including mismatch between the number of job seekers and employment opportunities, which is reflected in unemployment. The overall aim of the “Lead4Skills” project is to provide higher education institutions (HEI)…
10 professions who must play FLIGBY – are you one of them?
A Leadership Game You Have Never Seen Before Contribution by: Bence Peter Biro FLIGBY, our flow-promoting leadership development serious game has been designed with the purpose to make you a better leader. The biggest scientific contributor to this simulation game is Prof Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, psychologist, researcher and author of numerous global best selling books, most notably Flow.…
The Power of Flow: What’s In It For You?
The benefits of Flow in our private life are inevitable. Why would it be important to promote flow within an organization as well? Here are the Flow Benefits in the working environment: Flow focuses your attention on what’s important and positive. When you’re in a Flow state, you shut down self-consciousness and negative mind-wandering. You…
Why-How-What: Defining FLIGBY’s Mission
Explaining FLIGBY based on Simon Sinek’s “Start with Why” approach WHY? – Building Better Workplaces and a Better World Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It’s something that we make happen, and it results from our doing our best while meeting challenging, meaningful goals. This is…
The Psychology of “What If” – ‘Well done Zoltan!’, I told myself!
Going back in time, or “counter-factual” thinking, can have mixed outcomes. “Sometimes when we look back, we think about how things could have been better: If only I had gotten that part in that play when I was in high school… then I would have gotten into that great theater program at the Ivy League…