This episode started off with some soap opera-like drama. Omarosa at first was acting as if she was the epitome of integrity and success in life it seems. She began to attack Piers Morgan for his actions previously and even implied that Lennox Lewis was “just as dirty.” After a few exchange of words, Omarosa arrogantly walks by Piers and pours her drink on his head.

A short while after, Stephen Baldwin mentions that he wants to resign from the show as a result of Piers. Just my opinion, but you don’t need to be an expert to be able to see right through that as it looked like it had more to do about being caught in a lie/contradiction with Piers being a cop out excuse. Ultimately, Baldwin spoke with Trump about wanting to resign and instead Trump mentioned he should just go to Empresario instead which was the end result. Funny thing was Baldwin mention that he had to speak at a Church and as result he wouldn’t be fully involved in the task.

The task this time around was to create a “living window” display that would feature mattresses designed by the renowned designer Vera Wang and teams will be judged by creativity, brand imaging and entertainment value as judged by herself and Bob Sherman who is the president of the company Serta. The project manager for Hydra was Lennox Lewis and for Empresario it was Omarosa.

Empresario’s direction was to focus on a “perfect marriage” theme which was definitely a more conservative route of the happy bride and groom presented in a dazzling heart warming way. Hydra decided to go with a more creative route revolving around the thought of “The world’s greatest romance deserves the world’s greatest mattress” and created a symbolic visual of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony as a couple with a modern day twist. Again, it was Trace Adkins that came up with the idea for Hydra and it is quite amusing to see how he is so quiet yet ends up coming up with all these brilliant ideas.

I couldn’t stop laughing at the events that took place on Team Hydra’s side. Essentially, Lennox Lewis’ management style was that for every decision and direction for the project he would do it in a team voting style as oppose to him making a decision. It was a very disciplined management style I guess you can say. He was getting ridiculed by his teammates for it and the funny thing was everyone, including himself, were just having so much fun with it. I guess the music they had playing in the background made it even more comical.

In the end, Team Hydra ended up winning as their presentation was more creative and was focused in expanding Vera Wang’s brand out of just bridal themes. Lennox Lewis then got $20,000 for his charity the Muhammad Ali Center. Piers Morgan made a comment after and told Omarosa “Well, Bad luck. Bad luck next time huh?”

In the boardroom it came down to Omarosa, Marilu Henner and Nely Galan. It seemed like with those choices Trump was pre-meditated in getting rid of Nely for past incidents. It then got kind of fiery as Nelan Galan called Trump out on that and tried to defend herself such as back in the episode when Gene Simmons was fired on how people respect her enough not to bring her in which should say a lot.

It looked like she had crushed Trump a little bit there as he had no immediate answer. In a normal circumstance, all the things she said were pretty solid though in my view. If you think about it, it is kind of hypocritical in some way to use that past issue against her and yet for some reason a person like Omaraso, who probably has the worst history and lost twice as a project manager so far, seems to be hopping along still. Regardless though, Nely was fired. Just to show how agitated Trump was, he ended up saying “get the hell out of here”.

Should past issues play a big role? From my personal experiences it is generally a yes. This episode had to do a lot about character and integrity. While the show was leaning more towards an entertainment side of things I thought, it is so important in life in general to be able to find people who share that level of honesty and integrity to associate with. Like they say, history is there so we can learn from it.

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A person asked me recently where once myself and a few other people are successful in holding a specific individual accountable for lying and cheating people financially on whether or not the person can ever buy back my trust by financially compensating back more than the original amount. For example, it would be like someone stealing candy from a store and then having to pay for it while offering to pay more as well in an attempt to have a good standing record with them again.

My personal answer was definitely no to that. The one time so far where I can specifically remember where someone offered to financially compensate me to earn my trust again was actually for a job when I was younger. It was a pretty typical example too where I’m sure a lot of people have experienced as a person tells you how great you are and all that when it comes to work yet you find out that they are undercutting you in every way possible with some shady tactics.

Maybe it’s just me, but whenever people try to buy back trust with money especially after the fact that the damage has already been done that it usually feels like they are doing it to save their own face as oppose to genuinely changing.

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I was having a conversation with a person today in regards to whether or not a person’s personality and actions within their personal life would automatically make them the same in a business situation. For example, if someone was constantly late in attending a family function in their personal life does that mean in business they would always be late as well?

Generally speaking, I definitely agree with the notion that what a person does in their personal life shouldn’t matter too much normally. In a business situation, from my experience it has been proven time and time again that how a person conducts themselves normally in their personal life usually carries over when doing business as well.

While you obviously shouldn’t pre-judge instantly, it sure can be a definitive sign and indicator.

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I was reading this fairly old article from a newspaper that caught my attention. Basically, it was talking about how there are tons of articles and advice on what you need to do to become successful in being self employed, but rarely does anyone talk about how once you get adapted and accustomed to making your own decisions and essentially calling all of the shots that you can ever go back. Therefore, if an entrepreneur ever tries to work as a regular employee again for whatever reason that they won’t last very long since they are accustomed to making say quick decisions on their own and being a risk taker.

I took such an interest in the article because I actually did this once before for fun and experience. Boy was it an interesting one I must say. At first I basically just wanted to have fun and I worked with everyone just fine. I must say though, at various times it drove me crazy to see decisions or directions being made that didn’t seem to be the best way to maximize profits or how people’s skills weren’t being fully utilized to make the best experience for the customers. I couldn’t help but to take initiative which ended up working better in everyway.

The real interesting part was when word started to get around that I wasn’t working there for money and it eventually became common knowledge that I was there for fun and experience. Here was the interesting part in terms of how my entrepreneurial mindset became a positive for one group and a negative for the other. The first management team, keep in mind this is a large company, embraced the fact that I had all of this experience and work ethic and tried to utilize it to its full ability by allowing me to make decisions that would help the store to become successful.

I guess you can say even though I didn’t have the title of say a manager that they had no doubts in trusting me with things that normally a regular employee cannot even go near. There was one example where we were kind of competing against a lot of other stores in terms of sales numbers for a particular category and I helped to lead them to victory where we came out ahead of everyone by a very ridiculous number that was something like 2 times the amount of all the other stores combined while showing a 3000% growth from the previous year. Literally, virtually every obstacle that came up I proved that it could be done when others said that it couldn’t and sure enough it was completed with success.

Now fast forward to when a different management team came in. Instead of embracing my skills and background, they took it as a sort of threat to their own job and wanted to limit my contribution as much as possible while undermining my accomplishments. At the same time, they feared that I could leave at anytime and so they would rather not risk having to rely on me in anyway. On top of that, this group in particular seemed to be selfless in terms of focusing more on profits than people and tried to do things such as not pay people overtime when they should have (I really cared for everyone’s well being too).

For this, my personality and work ethic created a lot of conflicts with the higher ups as I wasn’t afraid to address problems as they came up. The other employees seemed to have appreciated it while it created a headache for the people who were officially in charge. Overall, the store did worst as they persisted in continuing with their ways and to them I became an extreme challenge for them.

So from my little experiment and experience, the question about being able to adapt into say a regular employee environment has more to do with how effective the person is in trying to lead you. At the same time, if you are hiring someone with say that type of background and experience that you have to be prepared to be on the same level in terms of worth ethic and commitment to be the best as well.

It personally taught me a lot in terms of leadership too and re-affirmed my belief in taking care of people first in a work environment. Overall, it can work if the person is provided with the right responsibilities and direction. I must say though, at least it was fun overall and I got to meet a lot of new people.

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