Articles about management by Matthew Stibbe
Employee engagement matters. Yet, only 15 percent of employees are actually engaged in the workplace, according to Gallup.
A demotivated, disengaged team member is less creative and less productive. Worse, cynicism and disillusionment are contagious, leading to higher staff turnover and dysfunctional teams.
[Read more…] about Employee engagement: 11 quick wins you can do todayIf you want to know why computers and video games are how they are today, you need to study the games of the past. See how nearly 70 years of games history has shaped today’s games.
[Read more…] about The secret history of computer gamesThis article is about the hard reality of starting and running a computer games company. I started Intelligent Games (IG) in 1988 because I have always loved computer games and I hired my first employee and moved into real offices in 1993. I sold the company and left in 2000. In that time we released sixteen titles, which together sold over two million copies. The company grew to more than sixty-five people and worked with some of the biggest publishers in the business: EA Sports, Westwood Studios, LEGO and Hasbro. We got there without debt and without external investment. It is from this experience that I am writing this article – as they say in America: ‘your mileage may differ’.
[Read more…] about How to Start a Computer Games CompanyA voice crackled over the radio: “Orlando Approach, 120 Foxtrot Tango, you are cleared for the space coast tour, contact NASA Tower on 126.2.” This is how my first encounter with Kennedy Space Centre, on Florida’s east coast, began. At fifteen hundred feet at the controls of a Piper Warrior, I flew North past the launch pads, the vehicle assembly building – so big it has its own weather system, or should have – and then down the almost endless runway where the Shuttle lands. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky and the sunlight sparkled on the water on both sides of the cape. It was an impressive, even awesome, sight.
[Read more…] about Yes, this is rocket science: leadership lessons from NASAThe open plan modern office could be killing your productivity, reckons The Atlantic’s Julie Beck.
[Read more…] about Why your office is killing your productivity (and how to fix it)Sarah’s team was facing a team productivity crisis. She was responsible for a big launch event at an upcoming trade show: colleagues to wrangle, suppliers to manage, finances to sort out, floor space to book and a thousand other things to do.
[Read more…] about How to crack the whip without leaving a mark: ten tips for instant team productivity wins
