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I think a lot of the time we end up taking people who - and this is sort of a big cultural advantage at Activision - we find people who are, have a graduate degree of some kind - mainly it's in the sciences - and they are in jobs that would never suggest that they were working for anything game related but that they're passionate gamers.

~Bobby Kotick

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Successful business leaders who have helped build institutions of lasting value - all are committed to talent and a culture of excellence. This is usually accomplished by the identification, retention, and development of great people.

~Bobby Kotick

Topics: Accomplished Build Business Business Leaders Committed Culture Development Excellence Great Great People Helped Identification Institutions Lasting Leaders People Retention Successful Talent Value Who

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Looking ahead, we see the popularity of eSports exploding as competitive gaming becomes more mainstream and eSports leagues like 'Call of Duty' World League and Overwatch League driving greater engagement and viewership.

~Bobby Kotick

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The engineering, analytics, design, testing, and delivery behind our products offer some of the hardest engineering and business challenges in the world. As we've brought our franchises into eSports and moved to digital delivery, it's become even more complex and exciting - which, in turn, has allowed us attract even more top talent.

~Bobby Kotick

Topics: Allowed Attract Become Behind Brought Business Challenges Complex Delivery Design Digital Engineering Even Exciting Hardest More Moved Offer Our Products Some Talent Testing Top Turn Us Which World

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Autonomy leads to empowerment. We work hard to maintain a balance between collaboration and cooperation and independence.

~Bobby Kotick

Topics: Autonomy Balance Between Collaboration Cooperation Empowerment Hard Independence Leads Maintain Work Work Hard

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Veterans have the skills employers want - discipline, motivation, leadership, and the ability to work on a team. They have made the U.S. military the most effective and respected in the world.

~Bobby Kotick

Topics: Ability Discipline Effective Employers Leadership Made Military Most Motivation Respected Skills Team Veterans Want Work World

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If you look at the history of our company, we don't do a lot of acquisition. The reason is, we need to see that people are culturally and philosophically aligned with the way that we approach the business.

~Bobby Kotick

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The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.

~Bobby Kotick

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In our early days, being recognized on any list of great companies was hard to imagine. There were times when we sold the office furniture to make payroll.

~Bobby Kotick

Topics: Any Being Companies Days Early Early Days Furniture Great Hard Imagine List Make Office Our Payroll Recognized Sold Times Were

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We like people with the potential to be leaders of leaders, not managers of managers.

~Bobby Kotick

Topics: Leaders Like Managers People Potential

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: Unknown

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