I think you can learn more about someone in their first 15 turns of a Civilization  game than you can in the first few hours of a training workshop. That sounds like gamer nonsense. It is not. Strategy games like Civilization VI  are not “brain training.” They’re better than that. They are complex, messy, human systems that force your brain to do the same work modern jobs demand, planning, prioritizing, updating beliefs, and making trade-offs without complete information. Und

You can watch a team's communication skills collapse in real time. One person stares at a bomb covered in wires, buttons, and symbols. Everyone else holds a manual explaining how to defuse it. Nobody can see what the others see. The clock is ticking. Within two minutes, you'll hear the breakdown. "Cut the red wire." "Which red wire?" "The one on the left." "Left of what?" "Just, the red one!" Then the bomb explodes. That's Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, and it is one of th

If your team can land hot, loot under pressure, and rotate to zone without turning into a imploding when things go wrong, they can probably handle your next sprint deadline without falling apart. On the surface, Apex looks like just another battle royale, teenagers screaming about shield cracks and third parties. But watch an actual coordinated squad for five minutes and you'll see something L&D departments spend thousands trying to teach: distributed leadership, decisive com

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