Harvard Biz Review Looks at WoW Leadership Model

So your聽family聽thinks that you'll never amount to anything because you sit around in your bathrobe all day聽managing your World of Warcraft guild.

Maybe. Maybe not.

According to an article in the Harvard Business Review, you could be modeling the coming wave in leadership styles. The lengthy, multi-page piece is definitely worth a read, but here are a few snippets to whet your appetite - and maybe help keep the family off your back:
A lot of work will be done by global teams... that are assembled for a single project and then disbanded. Collaboration within these geographically diverse groups will, by necessity, occur mainly through digital rather than face-to-face interaction.

What on earth will leadership look like in such a world [?] ...the answers may be found among... Eve Online, EverQuest, and World of Warcraft. Despite their fantasy settings, these online play worlds... in many ways resemble the coming environment we have described and thus open a window onto the future of real-world business leadership.
True, leading 25 guild members in a six-hour raid on Illidan the Betrayer鈥檚 temple fortress is hardly the same as running a complex global organization... [but] don鈥檛 dismiss online games as mere play. The best ones differ from traditional video games as much as universities do from one-room schoolhouses...
Article Source: www.gamepolitics.com.

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