The Loose Association of Wargamers

Zenbadger wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:11 pm My eyes glaze over when things like Belbin, Maslow and Myers-Briggs appear in the title of a mandatory training seminar at work.

But they're all perfectly good character names. Maslow is probably working for Myers-Briggs who is head of a secret intelligence department. Belbin is an unscrupulous criminal anarchist mastermind, possibly Belgian.

Maslow has his hierarchy of needs featuring whisky and Veronica from Accounting.

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:02 pm It's the kind of thing that stupid people learn in an MBA course, .

I think many of us have been to courses, replete with butcher's paper & role playing exercises, run by "experts" who alternately state the bleeding obvious or the definitely implausible.

I do personally think Belbin, with its flaws, is a useful tool in determining if a wargames' campaign or group project will work.
A blunt tool*, admittedly.

donald

* this means what it says & is not an example of my passive-aggressive name calling of fellow members.

It all depends on what you call "work". A gaming group on the verge of chaos can be very entertaining but the same mix at work result in utter paralysis. These schemes are generally based on observation of "sucessful" teams, teams that make money for the corporation. Those observations don't necessarily transfer to social groups or friendship groups. Maybe we need a mass observation study of wargamers to determine our particular archetypes.

My submission to the Economic & Social Research Council will tentatively use the categories Lawyer, Hoarder, Pedant and Jester among others.

Need to add in Angel of Death

Is that the cabin boy from the good ship venus?

Vintage Wargaming wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:08 pm Need to add in Angel of Death

AKA the Norm Reaper...

Buff Orpington wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 7:54 pm But they're all perfectly good character names. Maslow is probably working for Myers-Briggs who is head of a secret intelligence department.

When he's not in "Rick's" competing with Lumpy Bogey for Ingrid Bergman's affections......

Shades of the Brown-Horrocks

Calling someone a blunt tool isn't passive-agressive, unless you think being blunt is a bad thing. I don't use the word blunt; I prefer straightforward as a descriptor. Anyone who disagrees can lick my hairy bollocks.