Are Successful CEOs Just Lucky? (2015)

This is a great article summarizing a few studies on the subject.

While I haven’t read the papers mentioned, I know that it is nearly impossible to estimate value created, and it gets harder as the position responsibilities get more vague.

I think, a great CEO could greatly alter the success chances of even a huge corporation. However, determining if this is the case for a particular CEO is a very hard question.

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