Comments on: Never Second Guess Yourself

By: Second-guessing Yourself « Procrastination Amplification

Second-guessing Yourself « Procrastination Amplification — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:54:58 +0000

[...] Matt, over at World of Matticus, tells us the following: “You never, ever, ever second guess yourself when you’re the boss. You can’t afford to.” – Matt [...]

By: Roary

Roary — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:26:29 +0000

Completely un constructive comment, buuuttt. I think White hair is sexy (if you’ve got a full head of it)

By: Chase Christian

Chase Christian — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:30:53 +0000

I am having this exact same issue in my guild. I have two raiders who were my old-school progression workhorses who recently renewed their subscription and want raid spots, and their spots were filled by two so-so replacements that have been showing up every week (and were waiting for their spots to open up for weeks beforehand). I feel bad by telling these guys who are some of the best at their class and who were incredibly hard working before that they’re getting benched for the new guys who replaced them. But I am not going to take from the rich to feed the poor. These new guys will be treated like any other raider and will be respected, and the old school raiders will be treated like new recruits. It hurts me to do this, but it’s the choice I had to make.

By: DFitz

DFitz — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:04:58 +0000

@Matt – If only the reliable became Reliable Excellent, we would not have these hard questions on who to take. I mentioned my “conflict” about being benched 3 days ago and I wrote about my thoughts and the resolution, quoting this article at one point (I feel obligated to inform authors when I quote).

End of story – I think it worked out OK, but your article made me focus more on the hard job being a raid leader is and how difficult it must be to fill those slots. Even if it was a mistake to leave me out this week, it might have been a bigger mistake to question authority.
.-= DFitz´s last blog ..Dealing with the Bench =-.

By: maal

maal — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:19:37 +0000

The 100% attendance under geared raider or the previously absent geared up excellent dpser (healer/tank)? Is there really a difference? 99% of the time the person who is geared to the teeth and excellent is gone because he is bored and is “geared up”. The person who has been “loyal” really isnt any different he is only LOYAL and ATTENDING because he is undergeared. Once he gets geared he will also eventually disappear when he gets bored. again, this is not ALWAYS im sure you will point that 1 GUY in a million your friend for the last 30 years who will show up no matter what. BUT usually, there isnt much of a diffrence so you just have to find a way to make them both happy if you need them.

Now, DKP vs. Loot COuncil? ie. numbers vs. human intervention. numbers 1000% of the time. loot council/human intervention isnt bad sometimes. It is just horrible all the time. Why?

1) more than likely you will give it to someone you prefer. doesn’t matter what you will admit to here….you know your own heart.

2) people will always assume point # 1 and this causes dissatisfaction

3) you dont know enough about classes/make up to make that decision, even if you THINK you do

4) equal time , equal pay. for the most part you need everyone in that raid. They are giving up their time and everyone should be given a fair shake.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:08:50 +0000

I agree this is a tough call to make (this scenario at least). I have established my guild to reward attendance over performance, however everyone knows that I’m not going to waste anyones time by bringing undergeared or underskilled players.

By: Matticus

Matticus — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:48:55 +0000

@Hagu: Not necessarily. You’re assuming that ReliablyAdequate’s going to be adequate enough for Arthas. There’s a lot of mistaken assumptions out there that players get better with time. It’s possible, but its not always likely. Players hit different levels of “peakness” and never go beyond that. Some players will just _never_ be good as others. If ReliablyAdequate somehow became ReliablyExcellent, then that there is a clear winner. But being adequate all the time just isn’t going to be enough for some fights.

By: Hagu

Hagu — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:00:49 +0000

But isn’t there a time horizon here; i.e. too many decisions focus on the short term.

In choosing between SporadicallyGood and ReliablelyAdequate then the better short term decision is to go with SporadicallyGood tonight. But if you do that and ReliablelyAdequate moves on to another guild then in a bit will SporadicallyGood be unavailable due to not logging on, alts, PvP, server change or whatever the latest whim is, Then wouldn’t the decision that leads you to downing Arthas (3.3) faster be to go with ReliablelyAdequate?

By: scrusi

scrusi — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:23:28 +0000

Maybe my grasp of the English language isn’t as good as it should be here. I see a big difference between “not constantly” and “never, ever” second guessing myself.

Princeton’s WordNet defines second-guessing as:
“S: (v) second-guess, outguess (attempt to anticipate or predict)
S: (v) second-guess (evaluate or criticize with hindsight)”

Both of these definitions seem to be essential leadership tasks to me.

As I have pointed out in my post, you need to be careful not to overdo it, but never ever doing it?
.-= scrusi´s last blog ..Patch 3.2 – Halfassing Deluxe =-.

By: We Fly Spitfires - MMORPG Blog

We Fly Spitfires - MMORPG Blog — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:58:45 +0000

Being a guild boss is very stressful and deserves a lot of respect. It’s like management in any sort of workplace. Being a bad leader is easy but being a good leader is very very difficult and people often underestimate it. Good advice from your post
.-= We Fly Spitfires – MMORPG Blog´s last blog ..Guaka and the Fate of the Lost MMOs! (Guest Post) =-.