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…

Flow-promoting Leadership and FLIGBY Values

Flow-promoting Leadership and Csikszentmihalyi’s idea about “Good Business” While most people enjoy working when it provides Flow, too few jobs are designed to make Flow possible. This is where management can make a real difference. For a manager or leader who truly cares about the bottom line in the broadest sense of that term, the first priority…

Serious Games in Trend, in East & West!

The Financial Times now reports also what our team at #FLIGBY has been proposing, offering and delivering for years: #SeriousGaming is in Trend! Following the pioneering work 100 years ago done by Harvard Business School, now all Business Schools use the learning dynamics and interactivity of teaching with the case study method. At this point…

Great Interest for FLOW-Leadership in Russia at #EdCrunch

Great interest for Csikszentmihalyi, Flow, Leadership and FLIBY in Russia! #дапребудетстобойпоток! Join our great event and keynote presentations by Dr. Zoltan Buzady, our Director of the ‘Leadership & Flow Global Research Network’ at #EdCrunch in Moscow, Russia, October 1-2 !!! Большой интерес к #FlowLeadership через #FLIGBY в #Russia Присоединяйтесь к нам на #EdCrunch2018: 5th Global Conference on New Edu-Technologies, Москва OCT…

Flow-Leadership at European Business Schools

Our Leadership & Flow Global Research Network has entered a strategic cooperation with Corvinus Business School, a leader in business and management education in Central Europe and beyond. Core of this new strategic alliance is to enable new generations of outstanding future leaders and manager to experience Csikszentmihalyi’s official Flow-promoting Leadership Development simulation game as…

How to be a Good Leader

Obviously the two things that you need to know: who are your customers and what they need, and then who are your workers and what are their strengths. And that’s true whether you are the leader of a school. As the principal, you have to know what the students need, what children of that age…

Flow Leadership in Business – The optimal experience

One might think that it’s possible to put together a super team just by choosing individuals who represent great skills. But they forget, that after a while individuals do bring their own personality and their personal style to the group work.  For example, one person is particularly keen on time management, the next one on values…

What is good business?

Last November we asked Prof. Csikszentmihalyi to give a short definition of the term: ‘Good Business’. There is no business without making profit, but good business goes beyond just surviving in the marketplace. For making Good Business you have to make sure, that: first of all, you enjoy doing what you are doing. You have…

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – A life story with his own words

The following article is the translation of a nearly 30 minutes televison interview in Hungarian, that is available by clicking on the photo below: “When I was 10, I felt that adults did not understand what was happening in the world and I wanted to understand why this was so.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, founding father of…