How do you find a good manager?
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How do you find a good manager?
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Re: How do you find a good manager?
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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 appointed by lottery, in part because self-promoted managers are overconfident, especially about their social skills. Managerial performance is positively predicted by economic decision-making skill and fluid intelligence – but not gender, age, or ethnicity.
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Re: How do you find a good manager?
#3How many PhDs and think-tanks does it take to write a paper on "good managers"? That'd be a more interesting white paper
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#4How many PhDs and think-tanks does it take to write a paper on "good managers"? That'd be a more interesting white paper
Given there are thousands of papers written on this over the past half century due to the complexity of human behaviour, I'm not sure you'd be able to fit this into one paper. There are too many topics to discuss. Individual side, organizational side, and then it spiders from there. Cognition and psychology, culture, corporate governance, and much more, it's endless.
But to be simplistic, you could just count the co-authors on all those thousands of papers, take the average, and there's your answer. Draw up histograms along various independent variables if you want a bit more nuance.
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#5" 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 appointed by lottery, in part because self-promoted managers are overconfident, especially about their social skills. Managerial performance is positively predicted by economic decision-making skill and fluid intelligence – but not gender, age, or ethnicity. "
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#6How many PhDs and think-tanks does it take to write a paper on "good managers"? That'd be a more interesting white paper
Given there are thousands of papers written on this over the past half century due to the complexity of human behaviour, I'm not sure you'd be able to fit this into one paper. There are too many topics to discuss. Individual side, organizational side, and then it spiders from there. Cognition and psychology, culture, corporate governance, and much more, it's endless. But to be simplistic, you could just count the co-…
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given there are thousands of papers written on this over the past half century due to the complexity of human behaviour, I'm not sure you'd be able to fit this into one paper. There are too many topics to discuss. Individual side, organizational side, and then it spiders from there. Cognition and psychology, culture, corporate governance, and much more, it's endless. But to be simplistic, you could just count the co-…
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Actually, I think you missed the joke. The original comment was useless, low value junk posting. The reply was dry and funny.
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#8" 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 appointed by lottery, in part because self-promoted managers are overconfident, especially about their social skills. Managerial performance is positively predicted by economic decision-making skill and fluid intelligence – but not gender, age, or ethnicity. "
They did an adequate job on experimental design around randomness within their test population, but they did a completely inadequate job randomly selecting the population pool itself. You really can't extrapolate their findings to the general workforce because of this.
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#10Hate to be that guy but none of this really matters.
We all know managers get picked by kissing the right ass and siding with the right boss. Which of course makes (most, yes MOST, but not ALL) managers incompetent, or at best barely mediocre by happenstance.