Celebrity Apprentice 2: Week 4 - Product Launch
Finally, a non-crackberry, non-gender-specific task for Athena and
KOTU! Handling a product launch is a tough task. How did the teams do?
Lesson One: Talking the talk is one thing; walking the walk is another.
Clint Black talks a good game about the importance of being a good
follower. But when push came to shove (almost literally), Clint
resented not have his musical talents utilized by project manager Brian
McKnight, who took center stage.
Meanwhile, Dennis Rodman talked
a lot about being a championship team player, but then he walked off
after a tirade and didn't come back until the next morning.
Be careful about verbalizing your philosophy so loudly -- you may have to back up your lip with your life.
Lesson Two: Don't indulge in "girly hate."
Speaking of backing up your lip with your life ... Claudia Jordan
declared herself to be the perfect project manager because she's "good
at managing people."
Oh, really?
My original assessment
of her as immature got abundant support from her performance this
week. She shut down the one person who has production experience
(Melissa Rivers) simply because she didn't like her.
Brian
McKnight, meanwhile, has a tougher call to make: whether to allow
Dennis Rodman to contribute as a team member after walking away minutes
into the task. (Ivanka Trump seems to think he should. But she didn't
see the blowup.)
The best bosses are good at assessing their
team members' strengths and then clearing the roadblocks to enable them
to contribute their best work. It's not about who they "like."
Claudia,
instead, indulged in what I call "girly hate." In my experience, women
tend to hate one another much more personally than men. Let some other
women hack us off, and suddenly everything -- from her taste in shoes
to what-the-heck-is-her-colorist-thinking? -- becomes suspect.
Melissa
Rivers didn't bow down low enough or fast enough, and suddenly
everything from her mannerisms to her [alleged] plastic surgery became
a target for Claudia's ridicule.
Don Trump Jr. was right -
Claudia needed to step outside her emotional reaction to make personnel
assessments. But she lacked the maturity to see this.
Well, if the set of Deal or No Deal is like Claudia times 50, Howie Mandel has my utmost sympathy ... and respect.
Lesson Three: Consider your limitations.
The women almost tripped over something that plagued the women's team
from last season: trying to do more than time allowed.
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The
men pulled off a video shoot at West Point in spite of the time
limitations. But they focused more of their energy on the stage show
closer to home.
The result? A home run for the beleaguered men's team.
MY FAVORITE MOMENTS:
* Dennis Rodman reminding us all how many championships he's won. I thought those were won by teams?
*
"You know those red carpet extravaganzas over the last 12 years? I
produced those." "Congratulations." Butter wouldn't have melted in
Claudia's mouth.
* Annie Duke's dead-on assessment that she didn't know which was worse: Claudia's lack of control or Khloe's failure to step up.
THE FIRED APPRENTICE'S CHARITY: NAPSAC Foundation <www.napsac.us>
THE WINNING PM'S CHARITY: Youthville USA <www.youthvilleusa.com>
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