June 2020
Beginner
368 pages
12h 45m
English
In a July 2019 Wall Street Journal article, Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games, was asked how he created such blockbuster products as Fortnite. He replied, “I didn’t create Fortnite. But I did create and nurture the company that built Fortnite” (Needleman 2019).
The skills needed by such leaders include setting direction, leading people, delivering results, using business acumen, and building coalitions or some variation thereof, but what does this actually look like in the moment, day in and day out? What are the practices and behaviors leaders use to enable the type of performance that delivers results and enables competitive advantage in the marketplace? Like Sweeney, many leaders in ...