Byron Reeves: (Video) Games Promoting Positive Leadership

He interviewed players who work for IBM & also top guilds from World of Warcraft and asked about their video game playtime & experience.

Watch this video to learn how well-designed games can enhance management skills.

How can games influence middle-level managers in their work?
Byron Reeves, founder of Media X at Stanford, discusses an IBM sponsored study on how a game such as World of Warcraft can foster leadership skills. Listen to his groundbreaking findings.

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Who is Bron Reeves?
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BYRON REEVES

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Byron is the Paul C. Edwards Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, and Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director of the H-STAR Institute (Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research) and its industrial affiliate program, Media X. He is an expert on the psychological processing of media in the areas of attention, emotions, learning, and physiological responses, and has published over 100 scientific papers about media and psychology. His research has been the basis for a number of new media products for companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, in the areas of voice interfaces, automated dialogue systems, and business process simulations. He is currently working on the application of multi-player game technology to behavior change and the conduct of serious work, and is Co-Founder of Seriosity, Inc., a company building enterprise software inspired by game psychology.

but with good comes the bad, so he also goes into the negative side of gaming. Even MSM is covering men and video game addictions, Video games being blamed for divorce as men 'prefer World of Warcraft to their wives'

Byron Reeves: The Potential Dangers of Games


I'm a gamer. I was born in 1980 and had my NES system by 86 or 87 and have been rocking out since. Now, that said, I've seen many guys succumb to video game addiction. I knew one guy who choose that Final Fantasy MMO over a smoking hot Japanese babe, straight from Japan, sooo hot. Well, he was gonna marry her, but that fell through when he ignored her when she came out for her 30 day visit from Japan to play a MMO. MMO's we all know demand your time.

Video game addiction is very real and it can very well take over your life because its can be time consuming and time flies when you're have fun! Everything in moderation

call of duty sure helped my leadership skills. i am now able to lead a squad of spetnaz's thru arctic enviroments to plant bombs at the enemies objectives.

i also have over 70,000 confirmed kills and before i stopped playing hardcore non-stop sessions, my combat situational awareness was so finely tuned that i could go thru a 10 minute intense firefight without getting killed and taking out over 40 enemy players.

the thing with these games is that they are a combat simulator. just like pilots train in aircraft simulators to prepare and fly the real things, these games are so realistic and well done that they can be used to prepare younger generations for combat.

it will make the transition from simulator to real combat almost seamless. except there is no respawn.

but it doesn't matter, some of these kids will end up super soldiers completely outclassing and outkilling the enemy.

and if you look at the black ops multiplayer world map, where is lights up who's online playing call of duty, you'll notice the majority is the united states, great britain, canada and its allies.

then you'll notice that it is almost completely dark on america's potential enemies, namely china, russia, iran, north korea and anyone in the middle east.

lol video games can improve leadership? I've also heard video games can improve hand eye coordination and reaction time .. yeah.

If it were so I would have been a gosh damn ninja by now!

Interesting article non the less.

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I've read somewhere that surgeons, at some places, play video games before surgery to increase their hand & eye coordination. Edit: seems like the guy above me read it too. I can see how it increases leadership skills via being a guild/raid leader. That also can show you how bad you are. For example,

More Dots! World of Warcraft Raid wipe (WARNING: Lots of bad words)