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…

Why did Forrest Gump just ‘feel like running’?

The book reviewed in the foreword 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 “A Futás Öröme” (Libri Kiadó, 2018) ITT. “I am too stressed out!  I am trying hard to do my…

Developing Entrepreneurial Competencies among Tourism Students using FLIGBY

By: Ana Ferro (ISPGAYA), Zoltan Buzady (Corvinus University of Budapest) & Fernando Almeida (University of Porto & INESCTEC) In: Journal of Hospitality& Tourism Education – Scopus cite score: 3.2, (Q2)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10963758.2022.2109475 AbstractThis article seeks to present an initiative to integrate a serious game into an entrepreneurship course, attended by tourism students, which enables them to…

Analyzing FLIGBY’s Immense Data Set – video interview

Game-based profiling: Analyzing FLIGBY’s user data – What are the most interesting findings? FLIGBY‘s game-based profiling offers a unique research opportunity because the players’ leadership game-based profiling based on non-intrusive observations, yielding unbiased outcomes. An interview by Dr. Zoltan Buzady, FLIGBY’s Academic Director, with Mark Wilson, Business Analytics Data Expert & MBA. What makes the FLIGBY data set unique…

Development of Soft Skills Competencies Through the Use of FLIGBY

By Fernando Almeida, Zoltan Buzady (2022) In: Technology, Pedagogy and Education (Q1), March 2022.This journal is indexed in WoS (Core: 2.529) and Scopus (Q1).https://doi.org/10.1080/1475939X.2022.2058600 Abstract Serious games have been successfully used for learning and training purposes. Traditionally serious games have been used in the development of hard skills, particularly in technical areas such as health, engineering, defense, or the environment. However,…

FLIGBY Players’ Learning Diary

From the FLIGBY ‘play and learn’ diary of Erika (Business Student, Finnland): INTRO Most of us expect that stars on the stage (let it be a concert hall or a theatre) are in Flow and most probably also the professors should be shining in a focused way once delivering the lecture. What about the students…

FLIGBY — A Serious Game Tool to Enhance Motivation and Competencies in Entrepreneurship

By: Zoltan Buzady, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary & Fernando Almeida, Polytechnic Institute of Gaya, Portugal In: Gamification and Advanced Technology to Enhance Motivation in Education, Faraon Llorens-Largo & Rafael Molina-Carmona (Eds.), September 2020, MDPI booksISBN 978-3-03936-970-6 (Hbk); ISBN 978-3-03936-971-3 (PDF)https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03936-971-3 ABSTRACT: Entrepreneurship is currently one of the most fundamental economic activities in the 21st century.…

Oldie but Goldie!

View the concise key-note presentation about Flow-promoting Leadership Development via FLIBGY Professor Csikszentmihalyi’s official program. Presented at the IBM, SEE #BusinessConnect event by our Academic Director, Dr. Zoltan Buzady Ph.D. May The #Flow Be With You!

Quick Facts About Flow & FLIGBY

QUICK FACTS ABOUT FLOW Flow is a mental state in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment. Flow, creativity and happiness are related.  Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a distinguished social science scholar, found an inventive way to make happiness measurable. He discovered under what…