Originally Posted by Diceman

Ok, so maybe I exagerated by saying you can get a pay raise, but here's what I'm really wondering:

Does playing BF2 help anyone out there to complete their real world responsibilities any better?

The main thing I'm wondering about is for people who maybe felt not super comfortable in a command (SL/CO) position, but took those spots anyways, and after a while found themselves growing into it. Then later, say in a meeting at work, they found that they were able to be much sharper mentally, and were able to process and categorize information much more smoothly, as well as layout action plans and assign tasks and stuff.

I know that I had a meeting recently where I just kind of took charge and I think that we were able to have a very productive meeting, without wasting a lot of everyone's time.

I'm not saying it's all BF2, but I kinda feel like being in those Command positions helped me to immediately launch into a similar mindset, where it's all about getting a job a done, and what is the best way to do it.

Hey, maybe I should get my company to set up a corporate BF2 server. It would be a team-building exercise.

Anyways, do any of you guys sometime feel the same way?

I think that's an interesting idea. Leadership takes practice, and BF2 teamwork requires a lot of the same elements you'd find in any organized group of people. You have to communicate with your team, make decisions relatively quickly, improvise your CO's orders when the situation calls for it, etc. It's a little weird giving orders to people you've never met before, and there's no telling whether the stuff you get handed down from your CO is going to make sense. You have to explain what's going on to people who nominally have to follow your orders but in practice could blow you off or go somewhere else. In BF2 you're supposed to look out for your squad, but you also have to stay alive and do your share of the work.

So I think there are some similarities to real world activities, like you've pointed out.