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How to Manage a Boss Who Is Never Wrong
Episode 38 of The Difficult Boss Podcast tackles the 'never wrong' boss — the supervisor who treats every disagreement as a personal attack and defends bad calls long past the point of reason. Lucas and Luna dissect the psychology behind this behavior, drawing on a 2019 Harvard Business School study on overconfidence and decision-making. They walk through a real-world case from a mid-size logistics firm, where a COO insisted a flawed routing algorithm was correct, costing the company $1.2 million in extra fuel costs over six months before the data forced a reversal. Practical…
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