Do you want to know what Flow is? Read or Watch!

Do you want to know what Flow is? If your vote is for watching (‘5): If your vote is for reading, in our new book “Missing Link Discovered“, we wrote a whole chapter on “The Science Behind Flow”. The following is an extract from From Chapter 1: In Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s own words: “My original research, which I still do,…

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…

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 3

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…

X Üdvözüljük a napsütötte Kaliforniában, a Turul Pincészet világában! Köszönjük érdeklődését a FLIGBY  vezetésfejlesztési szimuláció és Blended Learning megoldás iránt! Az elmúlt 4 évben azon dolgoztunk, hogy megalkossuk a “hiányzó láncszemet”. Az foglalkoztatott bennünket, hogy hogyan ültessük át Csíkszentmihályi professzor nagyszerű Flow elméletét a valós üzleti élet napi szinten alkalmazott vezetési és menedzsment gyakorlatába. A Flow…

FLIGBY’s Multiple Feedback System

FLIGBY’s Galaxy of Feedback Types (Excerpt from the book, “Missing Link Discovered“) FLIGBY has been designed to give each player a continuous stream of valuable, multidimensional feedback during and after the Game. The two dozen or so different kinds of feedback are of three types if we use as the basis of classification the time when…

“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…

MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO FLIGBY – by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The introductory chapter with Prof. Csikszentmihalyi’s essay A basic purpose of the book “Missing Link Discovered” is to discuss how to teach the application of Flow-based leadership skills via FLIGBY, first in academia, then also in business and in other types of organizations. University courses (especially in graduate programs) are targeted because most university graduates will…

Network

The planned organogram   The three principal sponsors of the global “Leadership and Flow” research program are the Quality of Life Research Center at Claremont University (Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi), CEU Business School (Profs. Zoltan Buzady and Paul Marer), and ALEAS Simulations (CEO Zad Vecsey), shown in the blue circles on the Illustration of the planned…

What we are planning to research

Excerpt from the “Missing Link Discovered” book   The essence of being in a Flow state is the matching of challenges with management/leadership skills. Whereas the skill side of this coupling has been widely researched and categorized (and is often used in everyday practice), the challenge side has been underexplored, and is uncategorized. That is…