Last week I held a very interesting interview with Dr. Zoltan Buzady, who – beside being an experienced and acknowledged professor of Management & Leadership Development at CEU Business School, Hungary – is Managing Director of the global ‘Leadership & Flow Research Program and Network’, organized in cooperation with ALEAS Simulations Inc. He has vast…
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Behind the scenes of FLIGBY – from idea to invention
What do you think, how many people and how long did it take to create the #1 world (2012 Seattle) award winning serious game, FLIGBY? Believe it or not, it all began 10 years ago…or even a bit more. Maybe the below unfolding story sounds a bit mystical, being the creation of lucky coincidences. Back in…
How sexy is leadership development? Well, TOO SEXY !!!
Below you can read the short reflection that Zoltan Buzady shared on his google+ page with some of my additions regarding to Victor Lipman’s article about leadership development. How sexy is leadership development? Well, TOO SEXY !!! I agree with the conclusion that in developed economies too much focus and money is being spent on…
It’s difficult to be a leader alone
Being a leader is a very complex role. Especially in our time, when leaders would be required to know enough to support the team they are leading – says Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in the video below: They should know the needs of different minorities, like women, children, people with special needs etc. They should be able to…
Body & Mind – Flow & Leadership – Your Success!
On Prof. Buzady’s “New trends in Leadership” course we always had the body-mind-success theme trilogy to highlight and to exercise the connection between wellness and leadership. This theme is now also the focus of a HBR article: We have forgotten that organizations are first and foremost places of human interaction, not justtransaction. Research shows that our greatest need…
The Theory of “Flow” And Its Relevance for Organizations – 3rd part from the working paper
Part 2 – Leaders versus managers The changing technological and cultural context of managing / leading This section offers a few thoughts on the impact of technology and demographic changes for managing and leading employees and other stakeholders. A subsection discusses the implications of technological and demographic changes for employee training and learning. 1.…
The Theory of “Flow” And Its Relevance for Organizations – 2nd part from the working paper
Part 1 – “Are you satisfied with your workplace?” Leaders versus managers Before delving into our main topics, let us detour briefly by addressing a controversy in the organizational literature: the presumed similarities and differences between “managers” and “leaders”. The subtitle of our book (which we are partly summarizing and partly extending here) is “Integrating…
Think and act like a leader – aka: managerial skills don’t have gender
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…
The Theory of “Flow’ and Its Relevance for Organizations
By: Zoltan Buzady and Paul Marer, March 2016In: CEU Working Paper SeriesDownload full working paper here. Abstract: The objective of this essay is to identify how leadership based on the principles of Flow theory, if applied, helps create a Flow-promoting work environment and leads to better organizational performance.Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of Flow – globally known, appreciated, and…