Today, 30 years ago, in 1993, in February, a set of rather extraordinary and important events happened. Many people have been inspired to creativity by the ideas of Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. But only a few people know that the widespread use of the Flow theory is the result of “an unusual association. In 1993 Jimmy Johnson, coach…
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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…
The Theory of “Flow” And Its Relevance for Organizations – 1st part from the working paper
Since the publication of ‘Missing Link Discovered,’ Zoltan Buzady (Ph.D., Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary) and Paul Marer (Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Hungary) have continued researching the implications of the theory of Flow for effective leadership, elaborating on and expanding the book’s first two chapters. This Working Paper is a progress report on that continuing research; the first of two…
‘Being Boring (1990)’ – What the PetShopBoys did not know, but we do know!
One of my favorite teenage pop bands, the Pet Shop Boys, sang: ‘Cause we were never being boringWe had too much time to find for ourselvesAnd we were never being boringWe were never being bored … Well, it remains a debate if ‘being boring’ is OK or not, but ‘being bored’ is certainly recommendable! Most…
The ‘Flow’ Professor: Mihaly Csikszentmihaly (1934-2021)
Why did Forrest Gump just ‘feel like running’?
The book review by Dr. Zoltan Buzady Associate Professor of Leadership, Corvinus University of BudapestDirector, Leadership & Flow Global Research Network “Running Flow” Mental immersion techniques for better running An international bestseller book by Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi CSIKSZENTMIHALYI “I am too stressed out! I am trying hard to do my best in order to get ahead, but I feel like…
Insights & Trends – An Interview with Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
‘What is FLIGBY & who is using it?’ Quick video with Prof. Csikszentmihalyi (1 min.)
We have asked Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the founder of positive psychology & discoverer of #Flow, to tells about FLIGBY. In our brief videoreport, he shares a few successful projects and corporations, who have already used FLIGBY for finding more Flow at work. FLIGBY is the global award-winning Serious Game solution for the development of Flow-promoting…
