Why superstars really matter — and should you pay bad employees to quit?

By Tim Gould

We’ve got proof: Superstar employees not only perform spectacularly on their own, they make everyone around them better.  

At least that’s the conclusion drawn in a recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic research entitled Why Stars Matter.

The research centered around university academic departments. Productivity was measured by the number of papers published, and the number of times those papers were cited in other academic literature.

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