A Leadership Game You Have Never Seen Before FLIGBY, our flow-promoting leadership development serious game has been designed with the purpose to make you a better leader. The biggest scientific contributor to this simulation game is Prof Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, psychologist, researcher and author of numerous global best selling books, most notably Flow. Csikszentmihalyi is also the founder…
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Why-How-What: Defining FLIGBY’s Purpose
Explaining FLIGBY based on Simon Sinek’s “Start with Why” approach WHY? – Building Better Workplaces and a Better World Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It’s something that we make happen, and it results from our doing our best while meeting challenging, meaningful goals. This is…
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…
Why Motivation is an Exercise
Learning Leadership from a Serious Simulation Game – Online Coaching Best Practice
Let us re-share with you the post by Nina Trankova, Global Expert in Digital Communications Skills, Official Google+ Create Lead-Member and Top Contributor: “That might sound strange from a person who never played computer games at all.” The 100% individual result for such a short time (the global average time is 7h) and the metrics…
25 Years Jubilee: Super Bowl, Flow, Creativity & You!
25 years ago, 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 of the Dallas Cowboys, showed the…
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…
Fligby as an asset for entrepreneurship students
An interview with Dr. Fernando Almeida, Engineer/Professor of the Polytechnic Higher Institute of Gaya Prepared by Dr. Zoltan Buzady, Director of the Global Leadership & Flow Network Dr. Almeida, you are a top scientist in your field of Science & Technology and now teach also Entrepreneurship. What are your observations when using FLIGBY as a platform to help…
Machiavelli Vs. Csikszentmihályi: Go-get it leadership or flow leadership
Once in a position of power, does a leader focus solely on a goal, regardless of the impact on subordinates, or does a leader focus on the subordinates in order to successfully attain that same goal? There are various influential thinkers who have shared their theories as to what is the correct type of leadership,…