Ask any sports fan about their favorite team and they will usually spend half the time either cursing or extolling the manager. Apparently, the manager is responsible for every loss, and perhaps even the occasional victory. Enter any pub in England during soccer season and you will find hundreds of angry, red-faced fans shouting insults to the TV, many of them directed at the manager.
Good Management Predicts a Firm’s Success Better Than IT, R&D, or Even Employee Skills
According to a survey of manufacturers.
April 19, 2017
Summary.
New research confirms that management matters – a lot. In fact, it matters as much or more than a number of other factors associated with successful businesses, like technology adoption. Perhaps most surprisingly, management quality varies not just between companies, but within them. And good management depends on free markets, competition, and educated employees.
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