BBC News : Gaming and raiding in World of Warcraft

"Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to gather 25 strangers from around the world and organise them into a fighting force capable of defeating the strongest foes.

You must be intimately acquainted with their strengths and weaknesses and deploy them wisely to make the best of those talents.
The relevance of raiding transcends WoW in another way too, said Ms Cockshut. The virtual teams and teamwork it demands are likely to be in demand as the world makes more use of the web.
"There is a lot for us to learn about how people co-ordinate this," she said. "What they are doing has a lot of implications for group dynamics, management and other approaches in business that we really need to start taking seriously." "~Mark Ward

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12326825

I can see how this would be relevant to people outside of the WoW game base. If we could gain understanding on how the group dynamics work here, and use them in the business world, we (esp. here in the U.S.) might be able to bring ourselves out of this black hole.
One thing I have to say about the business world, it has become a bit stressed and cut throat. So stressful in fact that there are hotels in other countries that allow you to pay for a room in advance that they allow you to wreck everything inside, and supply you the means to do so. To quote "Live like a rock star".
Many people use WoW as an escape from reality, and a stress relief. Maybe someone is actually paying attention to what is happening to our workforces.