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"Charmaine: Helpfully Stepping Up Or Just CYA"
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"Charmaine: Helpfully Stepping Up Or Just CYA" |
Charmaine made much of the fact that she tried to get Lenny to prepare for the meeting with the execs, and how upset she was he didn't do it. She also said that she was upset with the short length of meeting, and that she made an attempt to get the meeting going by asking a question herself.Granted that the Project Manager should be in charge of this meeting, the fact remains that Charmaine's behavior raises some questions itself. Charmaine and all these contestants are vying to be The Apprentice, a half million dollar a year job. If Charmaine was so upset, as she claims, that Lenny wasn't taking the meeting seriously enough, why didn't she take a few minutes to make a list of questions she would like to ask herself? If you are smart enough to foresee impending doom occurring, shouldn't you prepare for it? Heck, even if Lenny turns out better prepared than you think, you will still get a chance to ask your questions. So why not make up a list? Which brings up another issue-charmaine asked just ONE question? And the answer only took a minute or so? Here are three questions, right off the top of my head, that I would think to ask the execs. 1) You execs have all really been around, and I am sure you have seen many Boys and Girls Clubs. Of the ones that had the wherewithal to have a large, central area, could you describe two or three of the best rooms you have ever seen, describe them and tell us why you liked them? 2) Generallly, do you feel the kids will be better served if the room has an activity or activities which require several kids working together, or one kid working alone? 3) Here's a list of activities we can set up, please tell me your initial reaction to each: A) Chess
B) Ping Pong
C) Video Games
D) Boxing Ring
E) Painting
F) Ceramics
G) Weightlifting
H) DJing, also music recording and mixing
I) Large Screen TV
J) Computer Art
H) Video Making and Editing
I) Film making, performance Instead of complaining about how Lenny is unprepared for the meeting, why didn't Charmaine make up a list of questions that can help her team? Was she really after trying to get the team to win? Or was she really more interested in covering her butt in case the team lost? Frankly, it looks more like the the second choice than the first.
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3. "Figuring Past The Editing Can Be Tough" |
LAST EDITED ON 04-24-06 AT 06:53 PM (EST)Yes, there is no question that the editing will have much to do with how we feel about the show. We can only hope that the editors make some attempt to portray what actually happened. In at least one instance, in relation to Tarek in the first task, I think it is obvious they did not. Nevertheless, Trump asserted in the boardroom that Gold Rush's meeting lasted only 10 minutes, and nobody disputed that. And there was plenty of nervous silences and fidgeting around shown in Gold Rush's meeting. And they showed Charmaine asking a question, which as I recall was not even a particularly incisive one-it just seemed to be a question asked for the sake of being asked. Michael asked a lot of questions on Synergy's behalf, by the way, and I don't recall many concrete or useful answers. I think Synergy decided to make the room multi-activity on their own, and lucked out. I believe that if Charmaine asked my questions, the meeting would have lasted longer than 10 minutes. Somebody needed to get the execs off this "this is an effort for us to fill the needs of kids" advertisement,and get them over to giving some idea of what they actually envision. Instead, the execs did a presentation on behalf of their program, and nobody on either team managed to get them to give even a general vision of what they want in the way of a room. I put these questions out there not because I think they are so brilliant, but because I am an average Joe with no executive experience in any large corporation setting, yet even someone like myself can ask better questions than these two teams. And I believe that most of the people on this forum could come up with three or more questions which would elicit more concrete info than these two teams as well. My problem with Charmaine on this task-and I do not dislike her-is that she is plainly trying to have it both ways. She wants credit for pointing out to Lenny to prepare for the meeting better, yet she did not appear to spend so much as ten minutes preparing some good questions herself. A few good questions would have elicited from the execs the fact that they expected multiple activities going on in that room. And the editing certainly would have dwelled on that, so that when Lenny was fired for making a one activity room, Trump would look good. So we know that Charmaine's questions-or anyone else's questions-never elicited that important information. Charmaine wants credit for making a mighty effort to pick up the pieces of a failed meeting, but she really didn't make much of an effort to keep it from failing in the first place. I guess she figures that if she does minimally more than anyone else, that is all she needs. In other words, CYA. It worked this time-but you have to ask how long it will continue to work.
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