There were a lot of perspectives in this episode where I’m sure a lot of people will be divided on. The two teams objective was to film and create a forty-five second webisode, which is essential a small episodic video show that is distributed online, where the purpose was to promote the cleaning product Soft Scrub.
Team Arrow seemed to have meshed very well it seems this time around. James was the project manager mainly due to him being one of the people who were on the chopping block last week and so this week was his chance to prove himself. While he did not much about film making, he relied on his teammates who were very passionate about it. As he mentions too, this can be a risk but I guess it’s better compared to him doing it having virtually no experience in it. Their webisode molded out as a story of a guy who was going to propose to his girlfriend and before doing so he had to clean the house up with Soft Scrub. Overall it turned out pretty good.
The drama between Muna and Kristine in Team Kinetic was growing even bigger this time around. For example, Kristine wanted Muna to be more involved on the production side that took place behind the camera whereas Muna kept insisting that she would be better in-front of the camera. Kristine eventually decided to simply allow Muna to do the acting. The production was a disaster as during the beginning of the shoot there wasn’t really anyone directing it as Kristine was out doing something else. Muna didn’t seem comfortable at all as her lines sounded like a fast blurb that made the story difficult to follow. Even I am having a hard time trying to remember how the story went. As you can tell, team Arrow won.
A touchy subject came up afterwards as since Team Kinetic lost as usual people began to talk about their thoughts before heading to the boardroom. Muna brought up religious points as she was reading the bible and how she believed that she will succeed in the boardroom with God looking over her. Kristine was reading some literatures that Trump wrote to hopefully find ways to communicate her points to him that he would understand. She then commented about Muna’s way of thinking on how God was not the decision maker in the boardroom and that Trump was. Basically, it looked like she was criticizing Muna for being so religious/spiritual about the situation when she thought that it should be more about down to earth business basics such as highlighting your positives and the other person’s negatives. I’m sure this will generate some heated debated from a lot of people.
In the boardroom another interesting point came up where Kristine was questioned on what happened with apparent blunders such as Muna’s acting and of course details about Muna insisting that she wanted to act in the webisode came up. The comment about that was how depending on how you look at it can be good or bad as simply allowing Muna to do it reduced the possibility of disruption as she could be bitter throughout the entire task and causing the team to be less productive. On the other hand, it could also be seen as a sign of weakness from a leadership point of view as instead of dealing with the problematic person one simply chooses to avoid it and go with the easy route.
That is one subject that I have seen so much personally where you have a high positioned manager or supervisor who instead of dealing with say a loose canon or disruptive person they simply allow them to do as they please as they are afraid to confront them. I’ve never seen this to be a good choice personally as people often see that as favoritism which ultimately costs even more productivity from your team as people tend to respect the person in-charge less. I’ve even seen some pretty ridiculous cases too where the person in charge doesn’t know what to do and despite everyone telling them on how disruptive the person is they still do things such as attempt to promote the person to keep them happy. In their mind, making that person happy so that they won’t cause a negative vibe to everyone else is somehow more effective than setting the person straight and making the rest of the team happy in a fair and consistent way.
Everyone seemed to have had a hard time just giving straight answers on who they would fire when asked the question. Overall, everyone said that they would rather keep Kristine over Muna. While the direction of the webisode played a big role in the loss, Muna made this comment on how she was like a lost sheep, or something along that line, as a way to show how vulnerable and lost she was to justify her acting performance and all. Trump saw right through that and re-emphasized on how he knows that she is a strong person and can’t really say that as if she can’t be held accountable for anything. That seemed to be the key moment as Trump then decided to fire Muna.
This was a very open ended episode I thought where depending on what side of the fence you are on you would probably see things completely different from a business perspective. This is one of the more thought provoking episodes I think so far in terms of determining what a good business decision is in certain situations.