Dungeons and Dragons, the primer for management

Interesting article over at Quartz.com that discusses the influences and business lessons that Dungeons and Dragons teaches.

http://qz.com/171166/everything-i-need-to-know-about-management-i-learned-from-playing-dungeons-and-dragons/

Note that the business analytics and gamification components aren’t overly revolutionary. I thought the diversity item was very interesting. I never really thought about it before but comparing the min-max aspects of playing various races to diversity is an interesting idea.

Using games as analogues for the real-world is neither new nor revolutionary. Using the real world as a game model, to simulate difficult scenarios, now that is interesting.

Thanks to @bsdunlap for finding this article.