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We’re coming up on the sixth year anniversary of writing this blog. It has come in a few different looks. I started it as “Diligentia” which is just laughable now. I really can’t remember why i thought that was a good idea. BUT – I did start off with a tagline of “a blog about [...]

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Concluding my exploration of the HBR article I wrote about last week. The authors conducted a study on leadership in MMORPGs trying to gain insight into business environments of the future. Today I want to dive into their second conclusion: The business environment is a factor in successful leadership. (As opposed to the thought that leadership expertise lies [...]

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I want to dive a little deeper into the HBR article I wrote about last week. The authors conducted a study on leadership in MMORPGs trying to gain insight into business environments of the future. Today I want to dive into their first conclusion: Distinctive leadership characteristics from games will be relevant in tomorrow’s business [...]

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The May issue of HBR has a great article about leadership in MMORPGs. The authors conducted a study on leadership in “guilds” (groups of gamers that join together to tackle games’ larger challenges) under the premise that online games offer a sneak peak into the business universe of tomorrow. The authors speculated that the future [...]

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Continuing with the gaming trend here….The Personal MBA author, Josh Kaufman, posts a list of the business skills/concepts you can learn while playing World of Warcraft. I don’t know about other MMORPGs but WoW has an incredibly rich economic system. By rich I mean that there is a lot to dive into. It is a [...]

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Gary Gygax died last week. For those of you that don’t know, Mr. Gygax was the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons. Yes. Here I go again. Adam Rogers had a great op-ed piece in the Sunday New York Times. Rogers theorizes that Gygax “constructed the social and intellectual structure of our world.” He is relevant [...]

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There is a very interesting article in the February 2008 issue of the Harvard Business Review. Here in an online link to the story. I have posted before that I am a gamer. This article focuses on MMOG’s or massively multi-player online games. I am a paid subscriber to Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. [Thorium Brotherhood [...]

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