True leadership isn’t positional
May 29, 2008 by Miki Saxon
Post from Leadership Turn Image credit: Daniel Voyager from TSL
An interesting post over at Collab@work led me to the Executive Summary of an HBS study on how multiplayer games hone leadership skills.
“…the authors studied people who headed up teams in online games. They also sought the insights of gamers who have led real-world business teams at IBM.”
“The authors identified three distinctive characteristics of leadership in online games that, as workplaces and the overall business climate become more dynamic and gamelike, will be essential for tomorrow’s leaders: speed, risk taking, and acceptance of leadership roles as temporary.”
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