Death Watch. Joanna thinks Paloma’s going to get fired, saying “I don’t think she does a lot”, which is interesting. Alex says he really wants to see Shibby return. Are we going to hear about who Alex wants to see return every week? I mean, two times doesn’t really count as a trend, I know, but it’s still weird. Sandeesh and Paloma walk in together, and Alex doesn’t seem too broken up about Shibby’s departure, after all that. Paloma tells everyone that LSAS asked Shibby “why have you brought Paloma in?” and the way she says it makes it sound like LSAS was totally in disbelief about Shibby thinking Paloma deserved to be in the Boardroom, instead of, you know, asking the same question he asks every week. “He couldn’t actually give a reasonable answer,” she claims. “His time was up.”
Shibby (and Melissa too, for that matter) need to learn so much more than I can fit into a pithy paragraph, so instead let’s talk about the rest of the teams. Synergy won this task because they were a team. Apollo were not a team, Apollo were a group of individuals all acting at cross purposes. And the lesson that I suspect Paloma especially, but really all of them, are going to learn some time in the coming weeks is this: If your leader is fucking up in a thousand different ways, step in and do something about it, don’t offer them another five hundred new ways to fuck up. Sure, maybe he’ll hang himself and you’ll walk away on this occasion, but if you keep this up, sooner or later, someone is going to notice who keeps feeding these people the rope. Instead of expending time and effort making sure you have someone to pin the blame on if you lose, spend it on trying to win. You’ll find that you win more often, and even when you don’t win, you’ll find it’s harder for anyone else to pin the blame on you.
Next week: Crazy inventions! Stuart Baggs™ would love some free money! Laura thinks something is unfair! Christopher says “bollocks!” See you then!
