Podcast: Apprenti Gone Wild

The Apprenti, after eight episodes, bid goodbye. Going out in style, they lower the boom on Trump, The Apprentice, Allie, Andrea, Sean, each other, and pretty much anything else they can get their hands on.

Sobering up for a few moments, the Apprenti talk about planning and keys to good teamwork as well as the need to do research on your task.

Click here to listen to the last episode.

Podcast: Real(ity) Leadership

Listen to Riley and Raluca chat about episode six here.

Topics this week:

1. Leadership Styles—Sean vs. Bryce. Not exactly Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman, but certainly two very different project managers and leaders. How do they stack up?


2. Character and Potential in Human Resource Decisions—Why does Trump fires based on project performance and not on character and potential? Don’t listen for an answer, we’re just complaining.


3. Trump’s Decision Making—Raluca takes exception to Trump’s “This is life” style of leadership and his corrosive leadership style


4. Talent and Conflict in Reality TV—What The Apprentice could learn from American Idol (and it has nothing to do with Lenny’s singing voice).

We’d like to do a question and answer session on the air. If you have questions on project management, organizational sciences, The Apprentice, or what Raluca’s favorite color is, e-mail us a question as text or as audio (via Springdoo.com).

Podcast: Getting Stove-piped

Listen to Riley and Raluca’s commentary on episode five right here.

Now that a little dead weight has been thrown overboard, the contestants get to draw up a commercial for a cruise liner. After watching Dan get tossed, the Apprenti had some questions and some answers.

1. Optimization of Resources—When there are too many cooks in the kitchen, teams begin to break down. The Apprenti think this was a mostly poor choice by the producers, not a failure by the teams.


2. Risk Analysis—Plotting, scheming, and pondering victory all come down to effective risk analysis. Why five minutes of brainstorming could have alerted Dan and Roxanne to the task’s pitfalls. Learn more about Qualitative Risk Analysis and Quantitative Risk Analysis.


3. Who Gets Fired: Ownership of Ideas vs. Leader’s Decisions—Riley and Raluca ponder absurd and not-so-absurd reasons why Dan got fired.

We’ve also got a new introduction and fresh “Things to Look For.” (Though we haven’t thought of a better name for this section and for that we are deeply sorry.) Tune in or tune out, we don’t care, but please download our podcast.