American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition …

managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity …In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the … difficulty in measuring and rewarding leadership input. These challenges might lead to underprovision of leadership activities …

. Selecting managers on skills rather than demographics or preferences for leadership could substantially increase organizational …This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is …

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …