A good manager can be just as important to a company’s performance as the combined productive capacity of its employees. This is shown in a new international study, published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics. The study also shows that those who are most eager to become managers are not necessarily the best suited to the role.
Manager quality can match entire team’s output, controlled experiments reveal
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