Friday, March 24, 2006
Recruiting Guild Masters For Management Positions
Continuing recent conversations about the explosion of virtual world themes integrating into real life situations, Wired has an interesting story about companies recruiting World of Warcraft players, specifically guild masters, for management positions
To run a large one, a guild master must be adept at many skills: attracting, evaluating, and recruiting new members; creating apprenticeship programs; orchestrating group strategy; and adjudicating disputes. Guilds routinely splinter over petty squabbles and other basic failures of management; the master must resolve them without losing valuable members, who can easily quit and join a rival guild. Never mind the virtual surroundings; these conditions provide real-world training a manager can apply directly in the workplace.
# posted by Chad Stoller @ 10:37 AM 
