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We are often confronted with bosses who are indecisive or even fickle minded.
How do we really tackle indecisiveness? This is one of the biggest issues that often face people. In a dynamic and rapidly growing organisation, there are always challenges and stresses that the staff have to cope with. But the quirky nature of decision-making is the most stressful among them all. Most of the times, the work that we put in, the time and effort that goes into some task does not seem to find the due respect that it deserves. People expect not just salaries but also respect from all... including the bosses.
While its absolutely true that the employer has the right to the final word, professionalism only comes in if an organisation leadership and management respects the time, and human/mind effort that has been put in.
If not, it becomes hugely demotivating force and the workspace becomes an ordeal to come to.
Another fall out of the situation is the urge to become insipid workers who must not "waste" their time and mind to think or take initiative, lest it be killed at the final hour. It almost borders on the edge of sycophancy. The dilemma of succumbing to the indecisiveness leads to the same job being done, redone, and redone again... at huge time wastage (if costed, works out to over 120 mandays lost in a month, at times)and cost to the organisation.
The net result may satisfy one head of the organisation, but leaves behind the rest of the team unhappy, unmotivated and more than anything else loss of self-esteem and respect.
This is also how most of the times power centres work. Truly collaborative environments requires that the management respects its staff, their time and effort. And, if interventions/advise must be given, it should be done so, well before the start of the job.
This is the difference between mentoring, handholding, and getting your whims and fancies rule the roost.
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