1. Should Casey become more of a hawk or more of a dove?
Instead of persuading others to follow her agendas, what Casey need to do is acting as an aggressive hawk, the earlier, the better. In that case, Casey just leave the other specialists in an awkward position---they need to make a choice ---compromise or not . Once seeing what Casey strived to protect her self-interest , the other specialists who are not that ambitious to push their own agendas will make concession sooner or later. Since no one wants the project to go to a dead end, which is an lose lose situation for everyone, the others may probably follow her agendas to ensure the project can be finished on time, and Casey just protect her own interest.
What’s more! Just like what we have said that Casey is just try to act like a Hawk, she could change her attitude to dovish after she found no one is going to fight with her anymore. We do think the best team atmosphere yield the best result. The team consist of doves who do not care so much about their self-interest and can calm down and exchange extensive views is possibly more efficient than the team with hawks.
2. What can BigCo do to promote a more collaborative, dovish environment?
But in terms of the whole enterprise, the allocation of the self-interest among the employees( the specialists) does not affect the process of the project unless there are more than one hawk exist in the team. So what is Bigco’s goal of promoting a more collaborative,dovish environment? Obviously, just try to avoid the worst situation---the project has been interrupted by the fight of the hawks.
If possible, the bigco can create a database including the character and feedbacks of the ex-teammates of every single specialist.The data whether he or she is hawkish or dovish or whether the specialist is arbitrary or easy-going can be recorded by the computer and seen by the supervisor of the project. So a