Hopefully by now, most of you Celebrity Apprentice fans have viewed last night’s episode. If not, you may want to fall back from reading this post as there will be a spoiler or two included. During last night’s program, Team ASAP and Team Backbone square off on an assignment to create a children’s book for charity. The women begin to spontaneously combust as Lisa Rinna is chosen as an reluctant Team Manager for their team—she is weak, vulnerable, and while she tries to be a team player, it is no secret that the other women are capitalizing on her weaknesses in order to get her fired.
In my opinion, Team ASAP’s book was better than Team Backbone, but it was decided the women were the losers. Lisa, as Team Manager, brings Star Jones and Dionne Warwick with her into the boardroom for a gigantic face-off, in which she claims she was thrown under the bus.
She wasn’t lying, though. She was thrown under the bus. But I have a really big problem with that statement:
Are you feeling where I am coming from?
The whole “I was thrown under the bus” excuse may be par for the course in situations like these, but I also think it is for the weak-minded. When you have a strong personality and are a leader, you won’t allow anyone to get the best of you or to overpower you. If you are brought into a situation where you are being challenged, you must go to-to-toe and wit-to-wit and overcome the obstacle. Being thrown under the bus in my opinion is a cop-out.
I once worked in an office where there was an office manager who clearly had a personal vendetta against me. At first, I was scared to call her on it or challenge her. But once I learned my role in the office and became acquainted with the territory, I began to bark back—not in an unprofessional manner, mind you, but in a way that made her notice that I was not going to fall for the banana in the tailpipe.
We aren’t always going to agree or see eye-to-eye in business, but respect is vital. You don’t have to be an assassin to be a leader but you do have to lead and not take a cop-out. This is what Lisa did and that is why she got sent home.
I don’t know about you, but The Celebrity Apprentice and it’s parent, The Apprentice, may be entertainment worthy reality shows, but they also display lessons in work, office, and business that we all should take heed in when being a business professional.
What did you think about last night’s The Celebrity Apprentice?
I agree with you. I had a problem with Lisa in the board room, when clearly as a leader she could have said, I delegated these duties to Star and Dionne. Lisa, as an actress, said she has a lot to learn and may not have done her best. Admitting that as a team member might not be bad, but as a leader/project mgr, is a sure way to get fired.
Ms. Tiffany, yes, you hit the nail on the head, sister. 🙂
I think it is always possible to try to throw someone under the bus, but generally folks with a stronger personality will be able to just flip it around easily where folks who are a little less confident may not be as able to do that.
On another note, I think that Star and Dionne wanted their names on the book title spoke volumes! They are not team players at all – I’m not a fan of either of them.
Robyn, you should never act like Lisa did last night and begin admitting defeat before the actual defeat. I was really thinking the boys would lose but when they won. I knew who was going into the boardroom. After last night, Dionne Warwick and her Psychic friends can take a walk. I thought she acted horribly especially with Marilee. Star has always been Star but she will last long in the game because she is aggressive. I cannot wait to see NeNe and Star go at it.
I totally agree, Lisa was a goner right from the start. She needed to borrow some backbone from Team Backbone LOL. I also agree that I think Star will go far in the game, I think she must have been a fabulous lawyer.
I was quite entertained by last night’s episode. Lisa Rinna talked a big game last week but when it came time for her to be PM, she faltered horribly. It was very obvious from the beginning that she was VERY intimidated by Star Jones and Dionne Warwick. She was not delegating enough and she let her team walk all over her. She certainly did herself no favors walking into the boardroom stating that she wasn’t ready to be PM. I was done with her last week. You could tell she thought she would be around for a while. Her team smelled weakness on her and pounced. She helped herself get thrown under the bus.
I have always learned a lot both the Apprentice and the Celebrity version. I am the type of person who is super honest. Even to a fault, like Lisa, but examples like that remind me that sometimes you have to play the game to survive. She was too indecisive and that made the team lose respect for her. Dionne’s attitude stunk and I thought that she should have been the one to go.
I agree, Lisa did not show her strength last night. Everything she said in the boardroom was wrong…from admitting defeat, to saying she was “forced” to be project manager, and focusing more on her personal view of her competitors (ex. they’re mean, she’s not a team player, Star supports in her own way etc.) instead of focusing on how they were responsible for the flaws in the final product. Star is a fierce competitor, she’s aggressive, organized, and definitely has experience creating an argument against a competitor. If I were Lisa, Star would not the person I would take back to the boardroom.
I agree w/Robyn, thought Dionne and Star were wrong to try to get personal credit for a team effort, especially one that was for charity.
Lisa wasn’t a great project manager, but it’s her fault she went home. She could have easily stayed if she had made the correct arguments in the boardroom, it was painful to watch.
What I don’t like about this show is exactly what parallels real world experience: it’s not how well you do, it’s how well you screw the others. IMO, Hatch should have gone home first and Dionne should have gone home this time, based on their perfomance in the task(s), not the boardroom.