Dear Shwetavi,
Going by the inputs you've provided I could only express some thoughts here, if may be right or wrong totally or half here and there.
First of all you should realise yourself what is your role to play in the firm. I presume the projects are part of " Procurement, Operation/Execution, sales and Customer Accounts" I think these are directly coming under the Tech.head or the CEOs themselves. Therefore you have hardly anything to give directions to the team members in the project execution. You it appears form your opinions from what the team members say to you in confidence. What they might feel probably right or wrong. But the CEOs should be aware what they are doing and how their instruction impact on the projects on hand with the project team. You or anybody cannot put on the shoes of the CEOs. They know their priorities and it is their co. and whatever the bottomline going to be the reflection of their own deeds. So it is needless for you to get offended by what the CEOs do.
Secondly, CEOs in their best of judgments prioritize for reasons not known to you and the team. It is always there in any business to switch/deviate to other tasks for some reasons depend on circumstances. I don't deny but for this deviations the team could have finished Project A but you forget it is the CEOs who are going to be answerable for the slippages not the HR. In such a small firm it is quite normal to deviate like this. There was no other go where was TeamB to execute Project Z ? You want the CEO to recruit an exclusive team B ? Order book position didn't justify a new team B. Probably the CEOs achieved optimum utilisation of team Project A. In fact, think like this, while executing Project A, you should take pride, that you executed Project 'Z also which was not there originally. Which means you did two projects at a time. Is't not ? This is positive thinking from your example.
Thirdly, it is near to impossible to give instructions in 'onego' in the beginning itself. It is nothing wrong to add instruction in the course of execution or modify the given instructions. Ofcourse the team has to recommence the project all over again which fact the CEOs definitely awareof . The team naturally should get frustrated. You have to live with it. Don't think this sort of things happens only in your firm. It's happening, it will happen everywhere.
Then, how did you think it is 'dictatorship' ? Yes it is dictatorship, what else it could be. There are only two CEOs. Where the democratic functionality come from ? Afterall It's their firm they got every right to allow the firm to function according to their whims & fancies. Ofcourse the style and tenor will vary from person to person you have live with it whether you like it or not.
So you people are unnecessarily getting worked up and worried for nothing. It's not a fairytale but a way of life you have to live with it whether you like it or not. Only thing what you people can do is, quit and join another big co. only to let yourselves to lament then, your remarks would like this... '....see this team leader he/she behaves as if it is her/his own co. If it were to be his/her own firm how he/she would have behaved God only knows " Am I not sounding realistic or pragmatic friend ?
Take things in its proper perspective and move ahead. All the best.
Going by the inputs you've provided I could only express some thoughts here, if may be right or wrong totally or half here and there.
First of all you should realise yourself what is your role to play in the firm. I presume the projects are part of " Procurement, Operation/Execution, sales and Customer Accounts" I think these are directly coming under the Tech.head or the CEOs themselves. Therefore you have hardly anything to give directions to the team members in the project execution. You it appears form your opinions from what the team members say to you in confidence. What they might feel probably right or wrong. But the CEOs should be aware what they are doing and how their instruction impact on the projects on hand with the project team. You or anybody cannot put on the shoes of the CEOs. They know their priorities and it is their co. and whatever the bottomline going to be the reflection of their own deeds. So it is needless for you to get offended by what the CEOs do.
Secondly, CEOs in their best of judgments prioritize for reasons not known to you and the team. It is always there in any business to switch/deviate to other tasks for some reasons depend on circumstances. I don't deny but for this deviations the team could have finished Project A but you forget it is the CEOs who are going to be answerable for the slippages not the HR. In such a small firm it is quite normal to deviate like this. There was no other go where was TeamB to execute Project Z ? You want the CEO to recruit an exclusive team B ? Order book position didn't justify a new team B. Probably the CEOs achieved optimum utilisation of team Project A. In fact, think like this, while executing Project A, you should take pride, that you executed Project 'Z also which was not there originally. Which means you did two projects at a time. Is't not ? This is positive thinking from your example.
Thirdly, it is near to impossible to give instructions in 'onego' in the beginning itself. It is nothing wrong to add instruction in the course of execution or modify the given instructions. Ofcourse the team has to recommence the project all over again which fact the CEOs definitely awareof . The team naturally should get frustrated. You have to live with it. Don't think this sort of things happens only in your firm. It's happening, it will happen everywhere.
Then, how did you think it is 'dictatorship' ? Yes it is dictatorship, what else it could be. There are only two CEOs. Where the democratic functionality come from ? Afterall It's their firm they got every right to allow the firm to function according to their whims & fancies. Ofcourse the style and tenor will vary from person to person you have live with it whether you like it or not.
So you people are unnecessarily getting worked up and worried for nothing. It's not a fairytale but a way of life you have to live with it whether you like it or not. Only thing what you people can do is, quit and join another big co. only to let yourselves to lament then, your remarks would like this... '....see this team leader he/she behaves as if it is her/his own co. If it were to be his/her own firm how he/she would have behaved God only knows " Am I not sounding realistic or pragmatic friend ?
Take things in its proper perspective and move ahead. All the best.