War Game - 20091114

A war game has been arranged to happen this morning, taken place inside a factory building in Kwun Tong.

It is a little bit unexpected that, having been quite a vogue for several years, war game has not been wiped out, and still lingers around. As we all know, all the chic stuff come and go so easily and silently in Hong Kong.

Thanks to those management courses, which promulgate the concept of team building so vigorously, the market for war game forms. Thus, in order to provide accessible venues for organizations to drop in, people smartly converted vacant factory buildings into indoor war game sites. I guess it would be very unique around the world.

Nonetheless, the effectiveness of building up team value, by participating in some war games, is always doubtful. With a mere several-minute briefing by the coach, how could anyone smart enough to grasp the game plan? So, at the end of the day, everybody would be a lone soldier on their own, shoot others aimlessly. Lucky survivors could stay on course for another 5 minutes, maybe. Generally, throughout the "war", participants could shoot some bullets, shed some sweat and pump up the adrenaline, and nothing more. Never fantasize team be built.

Anyway, in such a selfish society like Hong Kong, fighting for team value is just another Don Quixotic move, no matter by any means.