Shao Huang
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.04.24 00:20:00 -
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Old... and many 'responsibilities' in life. Among other things I am a researcher for one of the national scientific research organizations. I am new to EVE, but ooooold to games. I like EVE because... well... you can't win EVE. There is no where to get to, that you have not self generated. Probably true of many things, but very explicit in EVE. This also means that 'pace' and participation and all these things are up to me, regardless of whatever may have become socialized in the game itself. In part because I am oooold, senile and cranky I also do not care much at all about such socialized versions, expectations about or arbitrary assessments people may have about my play and such. I plan to fully take advantage of this aspect of a 'sandbox' environment.
Additionally, I am also combining aspects of my participation with things that contribute to my work and attempting to allow my work to contribute to my game experience, rather than drawing hard fixed boundaries about all of this.
I have also done a great deal of 'leadership development' with executive leaders and in very large organizations. Strategic planning, large scale change... all over the world, for several decades.
The leaders of the large alliances in EVE have to deal with many, many of the same dynamics and their insights and reflections are really very good. Some fo these dynamics are even amplified since their 'workforce' is primarily only moved by intrinsic values. Learning to work with that as a leader or CEO is no small thing and some of them seem amazingly adept and successful at it. I recommend actually trying out organizational strategies you might use in your company in an EVE corporation. There are many places where the utility breaks down, but there are many places where, if you were aware of that you could actively test things in a way that was fun, posed no risk to your RL corporation and contributed to the game and other players. Think of it as an organizational petri dish where the constraints having to do with it being a 'game' amplify and make more visible some dynamics, while distorting or deleting all together other sorts. Oddly, it serves as a 'controlled' environment for such learning. At a systems level, EVE is a human system and so shares all the properties of that with an actual corporation such as your own. There are very serious movements in educational reform that are looking at and trying out all sorts of aspects about this.
As a noob in a similar position, these are my thoughts, such as they are.
I failed to notice, or may have noticed and forgotten in my encroaching senility... has anyone said: get off the lawn ya damn kids! If not it surely needs to be included in this thread.
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