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Some Ways to Get Dog to Sit (Lessons In Game Producer Team Leadership)

If you are a game producer leading a team, then I believe some of these things might be useful in your situation. There’s several different ways to get dog to sit. Here’s some of them. The not so easy...

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Have You Ever Been Assigned to Do Useless Tasks? (Here’s How You Can Fight Back)

When team leads come to say that they need something. Then later they complain why the artist gave them something else (something that wasn’t what the lead want). Then they go and tell what needs to be...

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How To Trick Others To Work More

When I was something like 10-15 years old I spent time picking strawberries. There was some strawberry fields that needed workers and I spent some (darn hard) time picking those berries in some...

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I Wonder Why They Try To Motivate People With These…

Some companies seem to try to reward workers by buying some crap to them. I read some article somewhere about saying how employees could play table tennis at the workplace. It was mentioned how...

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Military Training (And What We Can Learn From It)

I was in the army about 10 years ago. Some managers I’ve seen seem to think army style is “outdated” or “too hierarchical” or too “command oriented”, and partially there might be something like that in...

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How To Make Decisions

When you need to make a decision, and “don’t know which way to go”, then a really good idea is to talk with somebody whose opinion you trust, and somebody who knows what you are talking about....

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Management By Perkele

You might be wondering what this word “perkele” means. It’s a Finnish word. And “management by perkele” refers to certain type of leadership/managing. Let me tell a brief story that I heard from a...

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What Dynamite Sales And Crunch Time Have To Do With Each Other?

I’ve been doing bit of a “crunch time” here this week. Not a real, real (sicko) crunch time you can see companies doing. But like… worked bit more hours. To me, that’s as close to crunch time as it...

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“And So On”

Guess what’s the worst way to assign a task? I have experience on this, so I’ll share this with you. The discussion goes something along this way: Juuso: “The 3d character model needs to be bulky. Bit...

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What To Do If You Are Hired To Do Work, Knowing That The Plan Is Not Going To...

I remembered one incident from 15 years ago. I don’t know why this came to my mind (maybe due the fact that I’ve been working on non-games stuff to pile some additional funds for this project). I was...

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