The Corporate Gamer discovers the True Enemy

“That guy over in accounting is a jerk!” , “The QA people are so lazy!”

Have you heard these kind of statements? Unless you are exceptionally fortunate, you have. If you are like me, you might even have made these kind of statements yourself.

What is your gut reaction?

These days, those kind of statements makes me all angry and Dexter-like inside. The guy in Accounting is not the Enemy.

Who is the enemy? Can we identify the true enemy of The Corporate Gamer? If we can, I bet we can make work more fun, and we can focus on combating this Enemy — together.

What is an Enemy? An Enemy is targeting our ability to play the Corporate Game. An Enemy wants to take our customers, steal our business, and rob us of our money. An Enemy wants us to die.

Is the guy in accounting the Enemy, then? No. Of course not. The Enemy is our competitors, the companies that try to hurt us in the market, who try to recruit our top talent, who establishes offices in our own home town, just to steal our business, our customers, our employees. This is the Enemy.

When we realize that we, as employees, are constantly under attack by the True Enemy, we can take steps to prevent the Enemy from hurting us.
We work together, we overcome differences in the work place, we team up, just as if we were playing a fun board game together, and we make sure that no one can prevent us from playing the game, i.e continue to reach unparalleled success — together as one team, one group of friends.

“Co-worker” means “Gaming Buddy”, and we care about and support our Gaming Buddies. Right?