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The best manager isn\u2019t necessarily the best employee. Turns out it isn’t so easy to predict what DOES make a good manager. Today on the show, we turn to science<\/em> to help answer that very question.<\/p>\n

Fact checking by Sierra Juarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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