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Matt McCloskey

Kill RoB Pt. 2: IO Mental Models

This article is Part 2 of a series on ‘Strategy in Action: Killing the Rhythm of the Business (RoB).’ In Part 1, we talked about what the…

10 min readJan 30, 2021

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Kill RoB Pt. 2: IO Mental Models

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Matt McCloskey

Strategy In Action: Kill the RoB, Part 1

Executives spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about strategy. They ask, “what can we do that customers want, and that no one else…

12 min readJan 17, 2021

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Matt McCloskey

Price legal terms into your contract

I recently negotiated an enterprise level software agreement that was amazingly complex and took way too long. Have you ever had a…

5 min readJan 13, 2021

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Price legal terms into your contract

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Matt McCloskey

Improve your diet compliance by 3,000 bps in 5 days

I have a system for losing weight. The system works if I follow it. And no, I don’t always follow it. I tend to do well for two months and…

6 min readJan 10, 2021

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Matt McCloskey

The Miracle of Magic Moments

It’s a miracle that anything good ever gets made. I remember when we were producing Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, we were in the woods all…

2 min readJan 2, 2021

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The Miracle of Magic Moments

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Matt McCloskey

Want to get promoted? Understand how the rules change

People in Big American Tech (BAT) companies worry a lot about promotions. I had one employee say that his primary career goal was not to…

4 min readJan 3, 2020

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Want to get promoted? Understand how the rules change

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Matt McCloskey

Your Game, not Gaming, is the Hobby

I remember the thrill of opening a new issue of Game Informer magazine and reading reviews of all the upcoming games. The photos in gaming…

3 min readDec 29, 2019

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Your Game, not Gaming, is the Hobby

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Matt McCloskey

Retention or Churn?

User based forecasting in service businesses is usually done on a monthly basis and consists of three metrics and some basic math. You look…

2 min readNov 12, 2019

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GaaS 101: Why User Forecasting is Better than Unit Forecasting

Games are becoming services and game studios and publishers that once were product companies have to learn to operate as a service. You…

4 min readNov 7, 2019

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Matt McCloskey

The Rule of the Arrow

Time to market matters more than you think. We all like to focus on quality and innovation and there are definite downsides to being…

2 min readNov 4, 2019

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Matt McCloskey

Matt McCloskey

Matt McCloskey lives in Cascadia, Excel, One Note, Spotify, Final Cut, his dog Lucy’s neck fur, and the center of a 1971 Gibson ES-175.

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