Are These Our Future Leaders?
Are These Our Future Leaders? Mindless Menaces and Mutineers? by Roxanne McDonald
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I am absolutely disgusted with the Omarosa-like characters on this season’s Apprentice— horrified that these are the types we might have to do business with in the future. |
Maybe it’s too late to recap and then bitch about the outcome of episode eight of The Apprentice [Sorry, I was still reeling from last week’s American Idol results—mutter mutter grumble.] Then again, it is likely never to late to identify crass and crappy attitudes that may impact us, directly or indirectly, in the future.
A number of these men and women do not deserve to win an apprenticeship with Donald Trump (or a job after having done their apprenticeship, or however that works). For starters, Kristine is way out of control. Her ego is so self-aggrandized I can barely stomach watching the teams go to task, even when I am interested in what challenges Donald Trump has for them and am intrigued by the creative team-brainstorming processes.
Kristin is selfish, taking on only what she feels like taking on; she is so self-important she cannot be bothered with the concerns and questions of her teammates; and she is—or will prove herself to be—a hypocrite.
It’s great she has prior successful experience with a similar PR half-time task. But it’s not so great, not all that impressive when she bulls her way through the idea sessions, deciding for all of them the shape of the task and then refusing to address or even acknowledge teammate concerns. Selfishly, she turns Muna’s questions, for instance, into some personal attack on her past greatness, which she repeats. Sigh. Get over yourself, chickee.
Though she admits that Surya worked well with the team when he was a Kinetic member, she also, when asked for recommendations on who to fire, says she would fire the project manager. This leads us into my next gripe, as her myopia works in her favor. Yes, it makes sense that each is out for her- or himself, but the logic is hypocritical: if the team wins, the team contributors should be lauded, but if the team loses, the project manager should be blamed and fired.
This brings back my ire for Arrowians. They don’t get that Surya, if followed, allowed to lead, wins tasks for the team. They don’t acknowledge [enough] how he has led to more wins than any other project manager. Of course, they cannot fully experience and then assess Surya or anybody else’s leadership for they are way too engrossed in fu—ing off, aping Surya, and defying his careful orchestrations and perfecting of processes.
Remember how last week (week 7) they were, instead of brainstorming and volunteering for select tasks, drawing third-grade images of teacher? Recall how this week, every time Surya attempted to lead them, someone would turn it into a joke? For example, after the suggested five-minute brainstorming period—which Surya has suggested they do independently and quietly for a
change—Frank gets all smart-alecky and snipes, “Time’s up! Pencils down! Pass your Scantrons to the left…” or something similar. How about first, not defying authentic efforts of your PM and second, not then displacing all the blame on a stupid, hoakey idea that involves a boxer on a soccer field? How about working on winning rather than on milking your bullying and cowardice?
Damn you guys are lucky America is not responsible for voting off the biggest asshole apprentice.
We may never have to do business directly with Kristine or the complainers and cowards of Arrow and Kinetic. But if we do perchance engage in activities that benefit one of these people in the end, I hope we tell them to “zip it,” and walk away, taking our business elsewhere it is deserved.
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