Weidmann, Ben; Vecci, Joseph; Said, Farah; Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … someone who consistently causes their team to produce more than the sum of their parts. Good managers have roughly twice the … impact on team performance as good workers. People who nominate themselves to be in charge perform worse than managers …