[QUOTE]HOW did Stephen Gillett go from college graduate to the youngest ever chief information officer of a Fortune 500 company in less than six years?
By playing World of Warcraft, says the Silicon Valley guru who gave him his first job. Less than half a dozen years after being hired by John Hagel III for a hi-tech startup, Gillett became a senior vice-president and chief information officer for Starbucks. Hagel says Gillett learned everything he needed to know for a career in business by corralling and directing people as a guild leader in the popular online multiplayer game Warcraft.
Guild leaders in Warcraft "require a high degree of influence" said Hagel, the co-chairman of a strategy centre for financial and consulting firm Deloitte.
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One company Hagel praised as an example of an edge-based business was German software giant SAP, which recently created a new network putting its software designers in touch with users.
Hagel said the move had given the company's software designers teamwork and communications skills similar to those shown by top Warcraft players.
In addition to the leadership qualities involved with becoming the head of a guild and assembling a problem-solving team, Hagel said Warcraft players also conducted extensive reviews of their and their leader's actions after the fact. And players typically customised their own dashboards to offer statistics and rate performance in areas they considered crucial to their strategy, he said.
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Source [url]http://www.news.com.au/technology/biz/can-playing-warcraft-make-you-a-better-boss/story-fn5lic6c-1225885620043[/url]
originally from forbes:
[url]http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/28/world-of-warcraft-entrepreneurs-technology-wharton.html[/url]
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i just realized that this is old
search didn't show anything
True? Yes, News worthy? Fuck off.
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Hey wanna join my guild it's called starbucks
[QUOTE=Faunz;23500719]True? Yes, News worthy? Fuck off.[/QUOTE]
Don't be a dick, I found it interesting at least.
Goddamn tank you're supposed stop starbucks from taking our customers away
...Not when you spend you whole life doing nothing buy WoW.
Playing WoW can make you better at being bad at things...
i would join only to play with you kondor but i don't play
you can imagine me being in your guild
I can see why it'sd help, there was that guy who saved a life after training to be a medic on America's Army.
I read somewhere that gamers have the reactions of a jet pilot.
If they think being a guild leader is hard, try being an alliance leader in Eve online, some alliances stretch over a thousand members and still have to be coordinated.
[QUOTE=Crimor;23501671]If they think being a guild leader is hard, try being an alliance leader in Eve online, some alliances stretch over a thousand members and still have to be coordinated.[/QUOTE]
Yeah not only do you have to be smart and organized, you also have to be a mean, douchey scoundrel. :rolleyes:
Could also be written as "can taking leadership roles in recreational activities make you a better leader?"
[QUOTE=Heroms;23501417]I read somewhere that gamers have the reactions of a jet pilot.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, they had the reactions of a jet pilot but the body condition of somebody several decades older. :v:
I can see this being very plausible - guild leaders and (in particular) raid leaders really need to be on top of everything in order to be successful.
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[QUOTE=Crimor;23501671]If they think being a guild leader is hard, try being an alliance leader in Eve online, some alliances stretch over a thousand members and still have to be coordinated.[/QUOTE]
what does that have to do with anything
When yelling at a cook "YOU HAVE TO GET THE CRABS MANA LOW BEFORE YOU DO THE FINAL ATTACK".
You're in a leadership roll with real people in real challenges, regardless of the context. I don't see how this is worthy of an editorial.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;23501727]Yeah not only do you have to be smart and organized, you also have to be a mean, douchey scoundrel. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
Isn't that a requirement for being a boss too though?
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[QUOTE=Kalibos;23503517]I can see this being very plausible - guild leaders and (in particular) raid leaders really need to be on top of everything in order to be successful.
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what does that have to do with anything[/QUOTE]
Both are mmo's
I'd believe it.
Guild leading is like being a proper CEO
I've lead a 40 man raid into naxx in vanilla, and a 30 man fleet, the fleet was much harder due to you having to deal with what's the biggest threat in a pvp environment against people you've most likely not met before, no idea what equipment they have on their ship, no idea who is calling the shots, no idea what's on the way or what's there but cloaked.
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Sloppy be breaking mah merge :saddowns:
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;23507771]I'd believe it.
Guild leading is like being a proper CEO[/QUOTE]
hahaha
You guys work, while I'll have a coffee with mrs Hot fake boobs.
And I also have to check my golfing...
In all seriousness, you should NOT play WoW to become a better leader.
If you are a leader, then you are one. If you are not, then you are not. Regardless if it is a game, real life or just some joke you came up with.
Go out, and learn from your mistakes, study people how they react on different things, and figure out what they really want, and then start selling the actually thing they want. Good leader or not, you could earn a shitload of money.
[QUOTE=Chippay;23508052]hahaha[/QUOTE]
It's all about derivatives and market prices dawg.
Any video game can be educational as long as it doesn't take your whole life.
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