Ex-Zynga Employees Lament Bungled OMGPOP Acquisition

Was Zynga’s $183 million acquisition of OMGPOP a complete flop?

Last week, in a company-wide email, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus initiated “Mandatory Meditation Mondays.”

“I recently spent a great weekend with our senior leaders at a nearby Ashram,” Pincus wrote in his message, which Zynga shared with Fast Company. “We spent the weekend doing yoga and meditation in addition to juice cleanses. We all found this incredibly grounding and left more mindful of what it takes to win this year. So, we have all agreed it will be a fun experiment to start having the entire company spend an hour every Monday in silent, joint meditation…Let’s try this for the second quarter and see if we generate better metrics through mindfulness.”

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