A lot of managers say that in organization meetings team mem

A lot of managers say that\" in organization meetings, team members may frequently raise a white flag in meetings, yet they rarely waive it around.\" As a manager, name 3-4 things you can do to encourage more \"flag waving\"

Solution

White flag is something that has come out from the context of war where a white cloth was often used by either allies as a symbol of surrender for either to surrender or to open up a space for negotiation, after judging the capability of the other.

In the modern context, managers have a cynical view when they participate in decision making teams and most of them feel compelled to just sit through endless meetings and surrender at the end of the meetings to the demands of the other. In other words most managers withhold any real effort during the decision making process. Therefore, ultimately they are raising a white flag in almost all of the meetings.

All organizations have to be able to manage decision-making teams which is a critical managerial skill, but to maintain a productive decision making climate it is often difficult and challenging. This has been proven very well in many historical events including catastrophes like the Challenger flight accident of 1986 where despite a engineer/manager who tried to raise attention on one of the critical parameter which was off was not allowed to do so by the top management of the team and so the engineer was unable to \'wave the white flag\' and alert others.

Now looking at the above information, some of the points you can suggest to initiate more flag waving would and should include: