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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…
Their Place in Leadership Development Recently, our Canadian partner has asked the following interesting question: Are the leadership skills measured and tested by the global award-winning, serious game simulation, called FLIGBY, “21st-century skills”? My first thought was that since the “people analytics” architecture of FLIGBY was made during 2008 and 2012, its competency-based development…
It’s not surprising that majority of the voters think that women have better organizing skills. Where this result can come from? Women are the ones (mainly) who keep birthdays, anniversaries, daily and weekly school and after school activities in mind. They are the ones who know every things place in the house (that the husband…
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…
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.…
Excerpt from the “Missing Link Discovered” book A key task in order to build scientific measures relating to Flow-based leadership personalities and competencies was identifying the management/leadership skills that facilitate the creation and maintenance of a Flow-based organizational culture. The producers of FLIGBY did just that, in cooperation with Prof. Csikszentmihalyi. His Good Business…
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…
The Leadership & Flow Global Research Network promotes academic cooperation, research, and publication across the broader fields of Flow and Leadership theory, as well as the use of Serious Games in teaching and training, skills measurement, and HR predictive analytics. Most publications below are enabled and driven by FLIGBY, Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s official Flow-promoting Leadership Development…
A reflective and analytical account of experiencing the FLIGBY management simulation in the context of developing managerial competencies and emotional intelligence. Am I really capable of leading people—or was I simply trusted with responsibility? I asked myself this question not in a lecture hall and not over a textbook, but in the middle of a…
Part 2/II of our Interview with Dr. Zoltan Buzady Associate Professor of Management, Corvinus Business School, Hungary Director of the ‘Leadership & Flow Global Research Network’, Aleas Sims Inc., USA Published in BUSINESS & PSYCHOLOGY* – Special Issue on Flow & Leadership PART 1/II Here – Zoltan, when you are teaching to these new generations at university, what…