I have recently visited Helsinki, Finland to have some studio planning meetings and to get a taste of the endless summer.  This was a treat because I often seem to be there in the winter when the sun barely comes out for a few hours at noon.  Summer is such a reversal that in Finnish culture they made the intelligent decision to make all of July a holiday.  Catch the rays while they last!!  I hung out with my amazing colleagues that are always making me look smart.  In the beginning, they made the ingenious decision to only hire people that are fluent in English, because they knew they had to do business outside Finland.  One result of this is much better communications and planning with lazy Americans like me.  But, it also led to something incredible in Finland.  We expanded our office from 25 people to 150 and hired a lot of very smart and talented Finns.  But, we also found a lot of great people in Helsinki that are not from Finland and also speak English.  The result is that we now have employees in that office that were born in at least 32 different countries!  Talk about multicultural… it’s a really cool group of people and they are better at making games for the world because they are of the world.  Something else that I like — because it is how I work:  they are creative as well as very analytical.  They don’t just sponsor an idea because of their ego’s interest in feeling smart and creative.  They study the market and they subject every idea to a ton of scrutiny and cross-examination.  And they are process-oriented like you would not believe, which again really appeals to me.