hä? Na ja… Joi Ito linkt auf einen Wired.com Artikel:

In late 2004, Stephen Gillett was in the running for a choice job at Yahoo! – a senior management position in engineering. He was a strong contender. Gillett had been responsible for CNET’s backend, and he had helped launch a number of successful startups. But he had an additional qualification his prospective employer wasn’t aware of, one that gave him a decisive edge: He was one of the top guild masters in the online role-playing game World of Warcraft… In this way, the process of becoming an effective World of Warcraft guild master amounts to a total-immersion course in leadership. A guild is a collection of players who come together to share knowledge, resources, and manpower. 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. … Never mind the virtual surroundings; these conditions provide real-world training a manager can apply directly in the workplace…. „I used to worry about not having what I needed to get a job done,“ he says. „Now I think of it like a quest; by being willing to improvise, I can usually find the people and resources I need to accomplish the task.“ His story – translating experience in the virtual world into success in the real one – is bound to become more common as the gaming audience explodes and gameplay becomes more sophisticated. The day may not be far off when companies receive résumés that include a line reading „level 60 tauren shaman in World of Warcraft.“

Wie jetzt, WoW soll also die Skills trainieren, die man im RL benötigt? Also ok, lass mal sehen, was ich kann.. reiten.. hm… killen … hmhm… Abhhängen.. jaaa! Wer mag mich einstellen? Bin guter Abhänger und gemütlicher WoW Spieler, Krieger.