THE APPRENTICE

Last night The Apprentice was on. If you do not watch this reality TV show on Sunday nights, Donald Trump gives 2 teams a task to do and then one person from the losing team is fired at the end of the show.

The winning team....

• They had a strong project manager who directed and call the shots.
• The morale was strong. They were all dressed in yellow t-shirts.
• They brain storm as a team.
• They had a good marketing and a workable plan that was strongly executed.
• They sold honey....2 bottles for $5.
• As a promotional gimmick....2 guys wore bee suit and walked around the supermarket to direct human traffic tot he booth.
• From paper, to execution, to leadership, to team spirit......this team worked as a team.

One of the comments from the judge to the team was, 'a good team comprise of members who cover for each other's weaknesses.'

The loosing team:

• Fingers started to point at one another on why their team lost.
• They started scheming who to make into a scape goat....project manager because he was too docile? or the new team member....since he was new?
• Poor leadership and poor marketing.....members did not know what to do.
• People were not allocated roles and they loitered around making themselves useful selling honey.
• In the end, the project manager got the sack.

Donald trump:

• He was to the point....asking members...where do you think the problem lies? Who should go home? Do you think the task was well executed? why and why not?
• He was not interested in excuses, he was not interested in back stabbing, he was not interested in digression.
• Get on to the point.
• Then he was decisive.....You are fired because.....
• Then end of story. Everyone left the board room.

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I guess our Donald Trump would be GOD. And we are all given a task to play. At the end, we will all have to face God in the boardroom. Horrors.....can you imagine God hollering out.....YOU ARE FIRED?