Comments on: Everything I Know About Business I Learned from World of Warcraft

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:52:41 +0000

Haha, I think this is definitely the nerdiest business development post I’ve ever read. Good stuff!

By: Malcolm Bastien

Malcolm Bastien — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:52:21 +0000

Great post, I think you could have written an entire article on point number 11 alone. Reading that one as a long time video game player let me see things from a different perspectives and learn something new.

Now, back to my quest to turn real life to be more like video games.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:14:04 +0000

Josh-

Have you seen the latest issue of Harvard Business Review? It contains an article about how the next generation of business leaders are being trained in WoW, and explains how elements of the game could be adapted to the business world to make project teams and leadership more effective.

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By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:09:12 +0000

Econ 101 FTW! W00t

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By: Beth Robinson

Beth Robinson — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:54:42 +0000

Fantastic post! I’ve never played WoW, although I have friends that do and am generally familiar with the concepts, but you wrote well enough that even less knowledge than this was really needed to understand the post and appreciate the simpler than real world system illustrating the business concepts.