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Total engagement : using games and virtual worlds to change the way people work and businesses compete  Cover Image Book Book

Total engagement : using games and virtual worlds to change the way people work and businesses compete / Byron Reeves, J. Leighton Read.

Reeves, Byron, 1949- (Author). Read, J. Leighton. (Added Author).

Summary:

The strong psychological power of games can have both positive and negative consequences for the workplace. That's why it's important to put them into practice correctly from the beginning--and Reeves and Read explain how by showing which good design principles are a powerful antidote to the addictive and stress-inducing potential of games.

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  • ISBN: 9781422146576 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 142214657X (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: x, 274 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- The game tsunami : who plays, how much, and why -- "Work sucks" : corporate problems that games might solve -- Ten ingredients of great games -- Virtual people -- Virtual money -- Virtual teams -- Virtual leaders -- Play is not the opposite of work -- Caught between fact and fiction -- Danger -- Tactics for change.
Subject: Group games.
Group relations training.
Teams in the workplace.
Play.
Work environment.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library HM 1086 .R44 2009 30540807 General Collection Available -


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