How strategy games like World of Warcraft can improve personal and professional growth

I'm compelled to point out that World of Warcraft is not a strategy game in the traditional sense. It's a role-playing game, and one of the more forgiving ones, at that. I was a guild officer for a couple years, which definitely helped me learn my guildmates' strengths and weaknesses and how they fit their roles, how to optimise their builds.

If you're looking for something truer to life as an MMO, you may want to delve into a game like EVE Online. It is notorious for being the kind of game that requires you have some sort of spreadsheet processor so you're not wasting your time and energy, and where your investments are not guaranteed to survive.

For actual STRATEGY games, there aren't a lot that you can play cooperatively with other people. But one of the more hardcore examples is Aurora 4X. You have to keep track of so many variables, it's going to turn you into a neat freak quickly. The quickest way to sum up the game is "[Aurora 4X] is a game where you play as a leader of a galactic civilization that never learned how to delegate tasks"