Sharing with you a good article by business site Forbes.com

The story tells a tale about two top executives who started out as gamers. Among them is Elliot Noss, chief executive of domain name provider Tucows, and 20-something Stephen Gillett, a gamer who became chief information officer of Starbucks. Both have applied leadership principles acquired through their own video game experiences.

“We’re finding that the younger people coming into the teams who have had experience playing online games are the highest-level performers because they are constantly motivated to seek out the next challenge and grab on to performance metrics,” says John Hagel III, co-chairman of a tech-oriented strategy center for Deloitte. Hagel has been studying the effect that playing videogames has on the performance of young professionals in the workplace.

Furthermore, here’s a summary of the top 10 ways games can help boost your career;

1. Leadership – Without a leader, raids or group quests cannot succeed
2. At First You Don’t Succeed – Try again. Go back to the last save point
3. It’s About Teamwork – There’s no “I” in team
4. Developing Talent – discover new skills, train newbies
5. Learning to Improvise – Faced with a new situation, learn to discover another way around it
6. Performance Driven – Awards and recognition let gamers see where they stand vs. others
7. Living For Challenges – Gamers are performance driven. Professionals who are also gamers seek this unconsciously
8. Competition – scores and rankings keep you on your toes
9. Becoming an Entrepreneur – business, buy and sell and ways to make money for your character translates to good economic sense in the real world.
10. Managing Information – Games are not easy. You have to do your homework and always seek out to improve on knowledge

For more information and details about the top 10 list, you can find it here.

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