Very few people who have worked in the game industry would deny that there's a serious need for better leadership, and for major improvements to the state of the art in game industry management and better sharing of best practices.
Given its title and the experience of its author, I was really hoping this book would fit the bill. Unfortunately, it doesn't even come close. It's very short (barely more than pamphlet-sized), amateurish, scattered, and disorganized.
The book is a collection of blog posts, and that's exactly how it reads. The book is full of "asides" and personal anecdotes that do very little to add to the whole (... "the American and Canadian members of the merged company got together (in sunny Orlando ... Brian is such a good boss. Need a production for your next offsite, Brian?)").
I would also have to argue with a few of the points made in the book. For example, the best current management research *does* clearly indicate that financial rewards are a major factor in employee motivation. It's one thing to make clear that dangling financial incentives in front of employees can be demotivating, or to emphasize that the way in which financial incentives are presented has to be undertaken extremely carefully, but it's essential not to discount this factor entirely.
The tiny book is filled with small highlight boxes that take up a big part of each page, and which either irrelevant ("Interesting piece of data #1", "Interesting piece of data #2", "TOOLS. There. I said it.") or painfully obvious ("Keep your business needs in mind.")
There's very little here that isn't covered better in other books on management, or that's not obvious to anyone who's spent more than a few years in the game industry. It's not nearly worth the $9 price tag.
It's depressing that this sort of thing might be what represents the cutting edge of the industry's thinking on leadership and management.
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Full of great tips and wisdom - read this book!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 14, 2017
