“Dunning-Kruger Effect: Stupid people are too stupid to realize they’re stupid”
I’ve worked under managers who got to their position through family connections or golf who were absolute idiots and didn’t understand what it was they didn’t know. The easier an expert made something look the more they were sure they could do it right without any knowledge or practice.
I’ve encountered an owner of a company who is like that, although he hasn’t owned it for very long. Dismisses the importance of hard to find, highly skilled technical employees as being a dime a dozen because they make difficult tasks look easy, therefore those tasks must actually be easy. Underestimates the complexity and time requirements of everything. Elevates dunderheads to management because they don’t ask questions, equates that with intelligence. Those who know enough to question faulty assumptions of complexity and time required are belittled as incompetent. It’ll hold together despite all this until the employment situation in the broader economy improves, then he’ll lose everybody he needs to retain to keep the business functional.
I hate to think of all the misery I have seen caused by managers who made all kinds of decisions and judgements based on reading reports filled with totally meaningless figures. They simply lacked the understanding of math, logic or human nature to realize they were holding garbage information in their hands and basing their actions on that garbage. The really hopeless ones could be quickly identified by their constant demands for more detailed reports with more “information” while studiously ignoring the real world. I believe some of them could have stood in the middle of an expressway and been run over by a big rig while reading the latest trucking statistics.
“Dunning-Kruger Effect: Stupid people are too stupid to realize they’re stupid”
I see a lot of this.