LAST EDITED ON 03-23-06 AT 02:01 AM (EST)>You posters that said he gave the team clarity from his lame ideas are the same people who think you should get a medal for an making a lame attempt.>
If you watched this show, you would know that when deciding whom to fire, Trump does indeed give points for a comparatively lame attempt over making no attempt at all. Or that he spares the applicant who made poor decisions over the applicant who avoided decisions. Where have you been?
You seem to be under the impression that ideas come in two types: good and bad. And further, that each idea is a separate entity in and of itself, unconnected to the idea voiced just before and the idea stated immediately after.
Well, that is not the way ideas come at all during a meeting or discussion. Even if a concrete idea is rejected, it forces the people rejecting it to think about WHY they are rejecting it, and that leads to more acceptable ideas. I have given two examples where Brent's suggestion led directly to a successful solution: the Team Name and the Lure For Sam's Club. Synergy was a direct answer to Brent's suggested Killer Instinct, and Brent's suggestion of hairdo's in Sam's Club was indeed the basis for the other member's suggestion of massages. The massages won the task.
Or do you seriously think that Brent's suggeston of a personal care offer, (hairdo's), was NOT the basis of the other member's suggestion of massages a half second later?