[arethuza]

"just decide for them and announce your decision to show who is in charge."

That reminds me of a conversation I had with a CEO once when I was a VP Engineering:

Me: "I think we have the scope of the new version pretty well understood by everyone and things are looking good for delivering on time"

CEO "I know for a fact that you don't understand the scope"

Me: "<confused>Pretty sure I do"

CEO: "Well I've decided as things are going so well we can add a few additional features"

Me: "Arghhhh..."

NB This was a while ago - my rookie mistake was having everything under control and everyone working calmly and productively and letting the CEO know, whereas the CEO favoured the "everyone must be near to panicking at all times" school of management.

Edit: Of course the features he mentioned were daft and were never implemented - he wasn't actually interested in them, just in unsettling me <sigh>