Comments | zhai: More catching up, slowly

zhai

More catching up, slowly

Jul 24, 2008 22:40

So. Steve (the greenbottle fly, if you remember him) continues to persist. I think he's even gotten most of the coffee off of his body.

Brief update, mostly for a couple of links. WoW friends will appreciate this, courtesy wired_blogs: "From MMO to CEO", a rather belated article covering the transfer of leadership skills learned in online game ( Read more... )

video games, writing, wow, philomath

Comments 8

Two way street ext_111951 July 25 2008, 05:41:14 UTC

Sometimes, I fear that my avoidance of WoW will drive some sort of cultural wedge between myself and future co-workers. More often than not I'll just have no idea what they're talking about. Like that recent Penny Arcade. *goes to google "Onyxia"*

Thanks for the heads up about Prime Books.

Re: Two way street zhai July 25 2008, 17:01:42 UTC

To understand Onyxia, you must understand 50 DKP minus.

Re: Two way street ext_111951 July 25 2008, 22:23:32 UTC

That was absolutely magical. At least, that's the only suitable word that comes to mind at this moment. Thank you for that.

jsridler July 25 2008, 14:11:14 UTC

Sniff . . . I'm sorry I made you sick!

JSR

zhai July 25 2008, 17:02:16 UTC

I think I managed to dodge it. <3

jsridler July 25 2008, 18:04:49 UTC

YAY!

deepthink July 25 2008, 16:54:02 UTC

Social or organizational skills demonstrated in any online game have been developed elsewhere. That's for the best, as their applicability offline is the majority interest to employers. To have developed the ability to "read" qualities through the veils of both public and online personae? Possibly very valuable in an increasingly virtual workspace, but a working relationship should be closer, less prone to loss of nuance.

Think... telepresence.

If by some bizarre circumstance we shift the image of online gaming away from simple play or a sort of digital heroin addiction, interview questions will be less "Sunwell?" and more "how did you schedule guild activity? How did you personally approach recruitment and performance review?"

zhai July 25 2008, 17:00:16 UTC

Absolutely agreed. I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek with the Onyxia thing -- you have to admit it sounds better.

I think the key with this sort of thing (from my approach with concession to this being a pet hypothesis) is in an instructional and confidence-building area... people generally do come in with these skills, they just lack the on-the-job developed confidence to know that they have them. So being able to think of these in terms of transference, that confidence in leading a guild can be confidence in applying those specific skills (recruiting, conflict mediation, goal structures) in the real world ( ... )