Hi, I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

We've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

Today you'll learn about the trait that most incompetent bosses share, a 1,300 foot tall

volcano that sprung up in some guy's backyard, and how meditation can boost your brain for

several years.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

Cody, I think this is probably a loaded question, but have you ever had a bad boss?

I think everyone has had a bad boss.

Yeah, they really have.

Although it's been a while, so I'm fortunate in that regard.

That's good.

Well, research has found the one common trait shared by the most incompetent bosses,

and it actually kind of surprised me.

How did researchers even define what makes an incompetent boss?

So researchers study something called researchers even define what makes an incompetent boss.

So researchers study something called managerial derailment,

which is basically just a fancy term for the dark side of management.

And there are a few different categories that you can read all about on curiosity.com, but yeah, there are like parameters.

Okay, so this is like a quantifiable thing. Yeah, for sure.

All right. Think of all the different bad bosses you could have. You could have an abusive boss, a micro manager, an overbearing boss, but research says that of all

of those an absent boss is your worst case scenario. This is the boss that basically lets you do

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