Tag: management
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The Art of Delegation
Have you ever found your team drowning in work, thinking “Is it faster if I just do it myself”? If so, you’re not alone. Let’s talk about delegation, a skill that is often seen as fundamental for managers, team leads and anyone in a leadership position. On the other hand, it’s also one of the…
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Read This and Your Meetings Will Never Be The Same
There’s nothing as bad as a manager obsessed with meetings. We’ve all been in those slow and useless meetings, with hours wasted in endless discussions that seem to go nowhere. Many managers pack their schedule with meetings to appear ‘busy’, but if you’re not one of them and genuinely want to step up your meetings…
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Leading the Pack – Lessons in Building a Thriving Team
Recently, at the GamesForum in Limassol, Cyprus, I was approached by someone from an indie game studio seeking for production advice. After a brief chat, he mentioned he was a reader of both my blog and LinkedIn articles and suggested compiling all that material in one place. While I’m not planning to repost my blog…
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Six Lessons I learned in Tactile
In 2021, I left my hometown behind to move to Denmark and work for Tactile as a Penny & Flo producer. I knew a lot about management already from my previous jobs, and I also was pretty deep in the mobile F2P industry but never worked in an international company or story-driven game. My previous…
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Killing Communication With Kindness
In our efforts to be “kind and polite”, we sometimes create more problems than we solve. This was clear in a story my wife shared about a colleague – let’s call her Kate – who was let go by a CEO of the company because of poor performance. Despite her struggles at work, Kate’s manager…
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Why I Love Diversity In Creative Teams
You definitely noticed that diversity in management and hiring lately became a topic as debated as pineapple on pizza. Some think it’s a modern must-have, some think it’s a fashion choice of agenda, and some don’t really get it. Tactile Games is a company with 50+ nationalities, 40% women, many LGBTQ+ people, and a kaleidoscope…
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