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Professor Csikszentmihalyi’s Good Business is more than a bestseller book. It’s rather a guide for anyone who values the positive contributions of individuals in the changing world of business. Prof. Csikszentmihalyi, who introduced the concept of “Flow”, extends its application in his book “Good Business” to the role of business in society. Csikszentmihalyi describes “Good Business” as a guidance for…
In the present time, two categories of individuals hold the clearest title to providing for the material and spiritual needs of the community. But is your faith misplaced? Prof. Mihály, CSÍKSZENTMIHÁLYI, “GOOD BUSINESS” Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning, 2003 As a first step, we should consider what it has meant to be a…
Interview with Dr. Zoltan Buzady, Associate Professor of Leadership, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary Conducted by Dr. Alma Alpeissova, Interim Director, Executive Education Centre, KIMEP Alma Alpeissova: Good morning, Dr. Zoltan Buzady, welcome as our visiting professor. My first question is: what was the main purpose of your visit this time to KIMEP? Zoltan Buzady: I…
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…
Changing consumers, changing employees – In how far is FLIGBY a good answer to the latest social trends? I met the FLIGBY method to support leaders and organizations during my Ph.D. studies at the Corvinus University of Budapest. My Ph.D. research is about new phenomena in consumer behavior generated by digitalization and technological development. The…
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…
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…
Dr. Michael Crooke – Achieving Spectacular Results with Flow-Based Leadership Many famous individuals have been so inspired by Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow and his Good Business concepts that they gave him credit for some spectacular successes achieved by putting the Flow concept into practice. One of the most remarkable is Dr. Michael Crooke (MC, as he likes to be called),…
The “Circle of Flow” shows the many-fold, life-long impacts of value-based leadership. The starting as well as the end-point is Csikszentmihalyi’s landmark Flow theory, the inexhaustible fount of outstanding individual and organizational achievements. As we proceed along life’s “circular flow”, a broad new vista emerges. From observers we become decision-makers, who will more and more experience…