makes sense to me

I hear Argentine and German players wanted to bury the hatchet and march into the stadium together, but their coaches prevented it.   They said goosestepping was too hard on the knees.

"""Think you need expensive MBAs to rise to the top of one of the world's biggest businesses? Don't tell Starbucks CIO Stephen Gillett.

The gateway to success can take many forms.

Gillett does actually have an MBA (from San Francisco State, as it happens), but according to a report in Forbes, one expert credits Gillett's time as a guild leader in leading massively-multiplayer online game World of Warcraft for his "meteoric rise."

According to Gillett's former boss John Hagel III, speaking at a leadership conference, successful guild leaders need "a high degree of influence...you have to be able to influence and persuade people--not order them to do things. Ordering people in most of these guilds doesn't get you far."

Aside from their leadership skills, Warcraft enthusiasts, Hagel told Forbes, "conduct extensive after-action reviews of their performances as well as that of the leader." They'll also "customize their own game interfaces to offer statistics and rate performance in areas they consider critical to their strategy" -- all key skills for any management professional, as our friendly office MBA tells us.

How strongly does Gillett believe in the ties between Warcraft and business? Strong enough to warrant a blog dedicated to the subject, run by the CIO himself. And it doesn't take long to see how running a guild and running a business are, in some ways, one and the same.

"What makes a community successful, makes a guild successful," Gillett writes. "If a guildie [sic] loyalty resides in any one individual in the guild, then you have future stress fractures waiting to happen. The goal is to have the loyalty reside with the guild and not specifically to any one person in it." Amen to that.

So there you have it, kids: next time your parents say you're playing too many games, tell them you're not blowing off your homework, you're honing your management skills. Good luck with that.  ""

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/fortune-500-cio-learned-everything-from-world-of-warcraft/1403849

his blog
http://theguildcio.blogspot.com/

our inner city youth should be caught before they are hardened violent offenders and taught white-collar crime, then encouraged to move overseas with a false passport and curriculum vitae

Which one? My explanation of byrd or my open-ponzi brochure?

hums "Nobody Does It Better" to the mirror

How is it possible that a politician with such a record gets so many political power? And more over, how can it be that a party that openly condemns racism closes there eyes for his most infamous racist quotes?<<

West Virginia is a quiet, unchanging backwater that gets the same 2 senators as NY and CA.  Byrd only came up for re-election every six years.

He chose the branch of govt that rewards people for time served and for party loyalty.  He never tried to shove into the top positions or destroy the party.  He voted whatever the party called for at the time, except for serving West Virginia economic interests like coal, and he just wanted lots and lots of money for roads and federal buildings and dams and other govt projects.  Everybody knows West Virginia is too poor to do it on its own, so it has the aspect of national greatness: LBJ putting through electricity to the boondocks, etc.

when you have 32 other elections to worry about and finance, why derail a safe one?

plus: the democratic party is not against racism.  It is against white supremacy, and he atoned by backing quotas when called on.  in that arena his KKK membership HELPED: "Look Republicans oppose this, -I- say I no longer agree with them. "  lying , because color blind isn't white supremacy.

Yes there is--Americans!!

I just stole 30 seconds of your life

When did you start appealing for consistency?

the moderators are here to moderate the forum, so that the forum better serves the community.<<

this is your constant mistake. The fmod team is there to enforce authority upon you. It serves Authority not the community, so your regular appeals to Liberty, Fraternity and Equality totally fail.  As does your demand for a dialectical proof of the Justice behind the power of authority over the community.  It is the Community who serves Authority for the betterment of Authority. This is the truth behind all commercial websites.