5 ways to be a really bad boss … Hint – Emphasize anecdotes over analytics.

Emphasize anecdotes over analytics. "I’ve worked with a few bad bosses who made decisions based on anecdotal information rather than hard data," says Pogorzelski. "But given the amount and the speed of data available now, there’s no good reason to do that. Incompetent managers prefer to rely on anecdotes because they can always find someone to tell them what they want to hear, rather than what the facts are."

Beware, he says, of "a boss who starts a meeting by saying, ‘If the data are to be believed … ‘ or ‘I know what the data show, but everybody thinks … ‘ My answer to that is, ‘Bring me everybody, and we’ll see.’" One of his all-time worst bosses, he adds, "made a major product decision based on an isolated anecdote he heard that suggested the product didn’t work well, when the analytics showed that it did. The changes he made as a result were disastrous for the business."

By Anne Fisher

Full Story: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/02/21/5-ways-to-be-a-really-bad-boss/

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