Do The Brave and Honorable Die Young?

on Monday January 31, 2005 0018h by Jonathan
in Uncategorized

Hmm. Just watched Season 2, Episode 2 of The Apprentice and I’m having that split mind feeling when your mind just does not seem to want to come to a solid and sound decision.

Ok, Bradford had immunity which he gave away (nobility or stupidly, up to you to decide) and so he was brought into the boardroom. In a surprising turn of events, he was fired. Woah.

Out of the 4 ppl in the boardroom, I felt that the person most like me in terms of thinking was Bradford. He already had immunity and thus was free to move on to the ‘next round’. But he decided to waiver it on the grounds that he was willing to take the risk and did to be part of the team and not set apart, and the payoff (if successful) was that his teammates would have a greater sense of respect for him.

And all this earned him 2 words from Trump. “You’re Fired”

Seriously, if I were in his situation, I would have done the same, to put my ass on the line for the betterment of the team, not so much as to gain respect but more so to make sure I would not be set apart.

This has been my leadership style in the various leadership positions I have held in VS. That is to ensure that the people spearheading the organisation / board / team would not be seen as someone “big and ‘in-charge’” but rather as one united unit, moving together towards the goal as ONE.

So when the people who were technically ‘under me’ (I really hate using that word, so I’ll be using ‘teammates’ from now on).. So when we accomplished something, when all is said and done, my teammates would look at each other and proclaim, “We did this ourselves”.

And so that was my leadership style, allowing my teammates to grow to their own capacity, letting them run the board / team as if it were their own to show them that although i was their Department Head / Captain, it did not mean that I was better then them.

I never really paid much attention or thought to it until now. Until Bradford got fired for this leadership style. So now I think to myself, did my teammates benefit from the way I led? More importantly did VS benefit? Perhaps the answer is tangible, perhaps not. I can only hope that both my teammates and VS did benefit.

[This post was brought over from my old blog]

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