Ask HN: The myth of the data driven leader
This is what typically happens in my team: team leader calls a meeting, in which a few ideas are proposed, let's call them A, B, and C. Of course, for none of them we have data to decide which one to pick.
Team leader ends the meeting and says: let's decide another day, let's sit on it.
One week later, team leader announces that he picked option A because "We don't have enough data to back option B and C"... But we don't have data even for option A, so why invoking the "data driven selection"?
It's now years that this kind of approach keeps happening, and I don't know if I should just jump ship or bear with it (FAANG salary).
Is this data driven decision making? I hope not! How should it look like? What can I bring forward to encourage a mindset change?