I am recruiting an experienced Product Manager, preferably from the social casino space, to join my Live Services team to grow further our Chumba Casino revenue (up over 20 percent this year, so far). We are open to locating the Product Manager at our Toronto, Malta, Perth or Syndey office, and would relocate a great … Continue reading “Recruiting Live Services Product Manager”
Key takeaways A critical key to success is attracting the right talent to your team. This provides a competitive advantage over other companies. A key element to successful recruiting is for leadership to own and drive the process, rather than relying on HR (who are a critical component, however) The other key is proactively finding … Continue reading “Recruiting, or why you want to Coach Team USA”
The championship game last night got me thinking about the similarities between building a title team and a great social game company. Although there seem to be a million books on how you can use lessons from sports in the business world, one topic that seems quite neglected is recruiting. Since I did not really … Continue reading “Recruiting, NCAAs and Building a Great Social Game Company”
People Analytics for Online Gaming You need to align performance evaluations with the underlying factors that create success; deconstruct what leads to the outcomes you want and then assess people on those factors. Some common problems when evaluating people include context (attributing results to a person when the environment drove success or failure), interdependence (assessing … Continue reading “Summary of posts September to December 2020”
While it is impossible to predict the future — Chaos Theory shows that even very small events can have a huge impact — you can still prepare for likely scenarios. The uncertainty principle, a key tenet of quantum mechanics (as popularized by Stephen Hawking), postulates that perfect predictions are impossible if the universe itself is … Continue reading “2021 Pre-Mortem: What went wrong in 2021”
There are several critical business decisions that are driven, often subconsciously, by arrogance; one of the most critical is around recruiting and hiring. I often write about Blue Ocean strategy but despite its proven higher ROI, companies still regularly pursue a Red Ocean approach driven by overconfidence that they are simply smarter than their competitors … Continue reading “Up-skillOR vs Up-skillEE”
Many people write about how to be a great leader or CEO, but very few of them have actually achieved it. Ben Horowitz is one of the few whose credentials live up to his advice. He cofounded and was CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. Before … Continue reading “How to become successful CEO”
Last month, I wrote about some applications online gaming companies can take from the world of operations analytics, which are primarily used by traditional and retail businesses, and a course on People Analytics from Wharton showed some ways this area of analytics could be used to improve our businesses. While people analytics is often the … Continue reading “People Analytics for Online Gaming”
Anyone reading my blog knows my passion and respect for behavioral economics and consumer behavior, I consider these fields key to successful business. Putting my money where my mouth is, I am now recruiting a consumer behavior product manager to join my free to play team on the Isle of Man. This position will be … Continue reading “Looking for consumer behavior expert”
There was an interesting article in the Harvard Business Review, Why People Quit Their Jobs, that provides great analysis on when your team members are most likely to leave. I have written repeatedly on the importance of recruiting a great team, and the logical next step of retaining the great people you have recruited, and … Continue reading “When you might lose some of your team”
The Business of Social Games and Casino 