The Harvard Biz Review concludes that managing guilds in games like World of Warcraft could be modelling a future leadership style that can be applied to far more than games. GamePolitics.com has the story.
What on earth will leadership look like in such a world [?] …the answers may be found among… Eve Online, EverQuest, and World of Warcraft. Despite their fantasy settings, these online play worlds… in many ways resemble the coming environment we have described and thus open a window onto the future of real-world business leadership.