From: The Sydney Morning Herald
Big heads, big profits
The Sydney Morning Herald:
So, a chief executive walks into a bar. ”Why the long face?” asks the barman. ”It’s because I’m not very good at my job actually,” he replies, ”thanks for asking.” It’s not much of a joke, but it might as well be the summary for a recent study set to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Run by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the study of 55 (male) CEOs of publicly-traded Fortune 500 companies concluded the wider the face, the better the financial performance. ”In our sample, the CEOs with the higher facial ratios actually achieved significantly greater firm financial performance than CEOs with the lower facial ratios,” researcher Elaine Wong said.
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