You're FiRed!!!
I think it's going to be the most dramatic rose ceremony...er board room scene yet!
I hope that Veto! is here, counting on her excellent commentary.
Hunkering down on the left coast in wild anticipation. Not going to read the rest of this thread until the rest of you are tucked into bed. Hope it's a good show tonight, as I'm getting bored with Survivor and need at least one show a week to perk me up. Donald, it's your responsibility. Else, the tv set is going to be thrown over the wall of Mar el Lago!
Elizabeth was lost from the beginning. You could tell it in her voice when she was talking about how she got picked to be this week’s project manager. IMHO they should be chomping at the bit to be project manager and not drawing randomly. Secondly she and the team forgot what Donny had asked them to do and that was use emotion to draw the audience in. After all the 9-11 imagery, Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of The Christ” movie, recent war footage, and President Reagan’s funeral if one doesn’t understand the importance of the right imagery and sound track to provoke emotion and thought then they are clueless today.
The only smart thing she did was getting them to begin filming early but then she should have been writing a script and using the two-way communication devices to get the shots and the script across. Just shooting a bunch of footage and then try and have your team piece together a power point presentation is not the way to go. But her biggest downfall was letting the team drive her decision making and her constant vacillation on which direction she wanted to go.
The Donald was right to fire her without having to go to a second board room.
One thing that sticks out is that these guys aren't team players. Speaking strictly of strategy, I think the best strategy for a participant on this show is to voice his opinion and if the team leader shoots him down, shut up and do his best to make the leader's "vision" work. If it does, great. If it doesn't, then you can blame the leader in the boardroom. How could Trump fire you in that situation? You didn't make the bad decision. You were a team player. And you worked hard to help your team win.
In fact, if you really wanted to be sneaky and thought the leader was weak, you could wait until he tossed out his idea, THEN you could pipe in with some contrary idea, knowing that it would probably be shot down.
Lizzy wasn't very effective, granted. But I thought her team stunk, undermining her at every step.
Do you keep an Apprentice ping list? We watch this show weekly but this is the first I've seen the thread.
Could you add me, please?
It starts in 15 minutes here. I just found you due to someone else starting a thread about the reward tonight being a visit with Denise Rich, Clintonista extraordinaire.
11/11/04 Apprentice PING.
Andy should have gotten fired for the $100 "tips" alone. How tacky! How obnoxious!
Donald Trump coming up on Hardball right now. MSNBC.
Apprentice Bump. Last show tonight. Sorry I'm a little late. It's not over year. 10pm est right now. West coast feed should be starting soon.
Booksmarts vs. Streetsmarts... that should be good!