Team building is a leadership skill that applies to all walks of life, and that goes for video game development too. In a recent interview with the New York Times (via Kotaku), Will Wright described his own approach to team building over the course of his work on titles like Spore.

"When you are building a team, there is a balance issue. There are seasoned veterans I"ve worked with 10 or 15 years. And then you have these young kids coming out of graduate courses who are very motivated and they"re not set in their ways. And they actually work very well together. And we"ll have another third that is kind of an eclectic mixture," Wright said.

"I think there is a lot of value in diversity. Some of the early games we did tended to appeal a little bit more to women than most other games. So we started getting the highest-qualified women in the game industry coming to us first. So there"s a gender diversity and there"s an age diversity. If you look at a lot of game companies, it"s primarily 25-year-old guys working in them."