Goodall, Amanda H.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study … systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders …’ characteristics. We show that a strong predictor of a leader’s success in year T is that person’s own level of attainment, in the …