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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 8465528" data-attributes="member: 15700">I will say, after hearing these types of stories over and over again, part me wants to reach out and act as a consultant on how to manage your people.  That is something I am very good at and have a lot of experience, if I don't say so myself (at the risk of sounding arrogant, but my track record in this regard has been very good.  And yes, my communication style in person and in the workplace is much more diplomatic than I have on a forum lol).Then I realize that poor managers and leaders generally don't think they are poor, and don't think they'd need improvement, let alone paying for a consultant.  One thing I won't understand is that RPG design is a creative process, and it's really hard to get someone to be really creative when they are stressed and/or feel like they are being treated unfairly, and yet so many companies treat contributors as if they were on a production line.  Treating people like that means they won't be as vested into the work as they could be.  Which in turn only hurts your product.  It makes no sense, if you truly want to put out the best quality product you can.  It's almost like there is no long term strategic thinking going on there.</blockquote>