Good managers are hard to find. Most companies pick managers based on personality traits, age, or experience—and according to a recent National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, they may be ...

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Dozens of promising characteristics have been parlayed in the literature on managers. As an example, high on most lists is being visionary in forecasting new opportunities, a quality critical for ...

The Ig Nobel awards, an annual ceremony for laugh-out-loud scientific papers, celebrate the joyfully improbable nature of much academic research. One of this year’s Ig Nobel winners, “Factors involved ...

By Alexander OKANTEYThere are different roles and functions of individuals and teams respectively in various organisations. A leader or manager may have “gone through the mill” and know a lot about ...