Muddled Conference - Inefficient leader

Shri: Hey, My dear team members! As usual we will have online conference today and complete our work early. Now its 8:15PM. Document submission deadline is 11:59 PM today, so come early. We will finish it.
(Online conference made project team coordination very simple. Even all the team members can be physically very far conferencing can be done. As work can be accomplished in parallel it turned out to be a good mechanism. Shri got some unexpected work and he came online at 10:05. Every one was there online on time but no one did anything.
Reason: Shri didn't tell anything about action plan. Shri himself doesn't know it.)
Shri: Ok guys, let’s start.
Everyone: Ok, let’s start. What should I do? I have doubts.
(How can Shri tell or assign works, this time he didn't plan anything. He himself does not know what to do. To make it crystal clear, he is in a dilemma what to do)
Shri: There are 3 modules in the document. Already I did the 1^st chunk. Owen will do the 2^nd module and you Alicia do the last module. Anthia, you just check out the errors in the documents presented to you by all of us, correct them and make the final draft.
(As the work is distributed Shri also started doing on 2^nd module simultaneously. Shri completed half of the 2^nd module.)
Alicia: Ok.
Shri: I am sending the 1^st module to Anthia. Do the corrections.
Anthia: Ok, got the file.
Owen: Shri! I am unable to understand it, clarify some doubts regarding it.
Shri: But Owen, we have less time. I did half of it, just see it and complete the remaining half.
Owen: After seeing your document, I go another doubt. We can do it in two ways according to your approach. Which one shall I follow? You got it nah!
Anthia: In subsection 3 of module 1, we can make it more lucid. What do you say Shri? Is it not to be changed?
Shri: Just a minute, Anthia.
Anthia: Ok.
Owen: But I didn’t understand it completely. I am unable to get both of them.
Shri: Anthia, if you think you can make it so, do it.
Owen: Ok, I will follow the first approach.
Shri: Anthia, correct last one line in 6^th subsection.
Anthia: Is there any mistake in that portion?
Shri: Owen, Just now I sent you how to do it, see it and complete.
Shri: Owen, Follow the first approach.
Alicia: Yeah, I too got that doubt about that 6^th subsection Shri!
Shri: Actually it is wrong, so correct it Anthia.
Anthia: Ok.
(Owen started working seeing to Shri’s document. But for Shri, after thinking for some time it seemed second approach is better and more accurate.)
Anthia: See the 4^th subsection, it can also be improved.
Shri: Owen, follow second approach.
(Shri couldn’t understand why Anthia doesn’t take trivial decisions on her own. Even though I already said to improve anywhere and in anyway she wishes, every time she is asking me disturbing my work. The important problem is lack of time.)
Owen: what! I already did significant work in first approach. You are confusing me.
(Yeah, But actually Shri is the one who is confused and is unable to think due to deadline tension. Its already 11:05 PM. Owen got angry and just logged out of the conference. Shri continued working with the 2^nd module.)
Alicia: (At 11:25 PM) Shri, Anthia check out my 3^rd module.
Shri: Alicia, Your module is completely wrong. See that doesn’t work for the any case. Check it out again and do it. Ok I will tell the subsections, you complete them.
Anthia: No Shri, It’s correct. I don’t think what you said is correct. Alicia is right.
Shri: No it is wrong.
Alicia: I got your point Shri, Ok I will change them.
Shri: Make it fast it already 11:30 PM.
Anthia: What about 4^th subsection?
Shri: Anthia, Do corrections where ever you felt wrong.
Anthia: Ok.
Shri: Ok, 2^nd module completed. But its already 11:45 PM.
Alicia: I sent you both the corrected version of 3^rd module.
Anthia: I corrected all.
Shri: I am seeing 3^rd module. Anthia, is it all ok?
Alicia: Is it ok?
Anthia: Yeah, 1^st module is corrected.
Shri: Now, 3^rd module is Ok. Hey its 11:52 PM. Alicia, You got all the modules with you, just integrate it and send quickly.Alicia: Ok.
Shri: Who ever has the final modules, do the work.
(Alicia integrated all the modules and submitted the document at 11:57 PM.)
Alicia: I submitted.
Shri: Ok.
Anthia: Ok.
(Every one logged out of the conference.)

The next day they came to know that corrected version of 1^st module was not sent as it is with Anthia. Alicia sent the first version with mistakes. Every one mailed Shri that the meeting was muddled and was very bad. We need to make something to improve the situation.

Bottom line: To accomplish a team work tools alone doesn’t work. Good Planning and organizing are required to lead a team. Leader should never postpone the project schedule to the last moment.