Worst ever project managership?
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After reading the 'watching old episodes' thread, I decided this would be interesting.
So if everyone could cast 5 votes im this thread, giving the worst 5 points etc., I will count the votes in a week and compile a list of the worst PMs ever.
Here are my own votes:
5 points: Rory Laing
4 points: Lindsay Bogaard
3 points: Paul Callaghan
2 points: Jaz Ampaw-Farr
1 point: Jennifer Maguire
EDIT: If you are choosing someone who was PM more than once please indicate which week you are talking about.
So if everyone could cast 5 votes im this thread, giving the worst 5 points etc., I will count the votes in a week and compile a list of the worst PMs ever.
Here are my own votes:
5 points: Rory Laing
4 points: Lindsay Bogaard
3 points: Paul Callaghan
2 points: Jaz Ampaw-Farr
1 point: Jennifer Maguire
EDIT: If you are choosing someone who was PM more than once please indicate which week you are talking about.
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And please specify a certain task
5 points: Edward Hunter.
4 points: Rory Laing.
3 points: Paul Callaghan
2 points: Zeeshaan Shah
1 point: Adam Corbally (Week 6).
Very, very difficult to narrow it down, I have to say!
In fact they were almost interchangeable. I just put down the first ones that came into my head
Makro cheese;
screwing up the banner;
the improvised non-cooker;
leaving one sub-team with no French speaker;
spending half the task making eyes at Katie;
losing money;
bringing the wrong people back to the boardroom.
Aside from remembering to breathe, it's hard to identify anything Paul got right in that episode.
4 Points: Paul Callaghan
3 Points: Noorul Choudhury
2 Points: Felicity Jackson
1 Point: Jenny Celerier
4 points: Helene Speight (task four)
3 points: Melissa Cohen
2 points: Edward Hunter
1 point: Paul Callaghan
Any voted from you lammtara?
Ah, sorry. I'd missed that this is a voting thread.
Trouble is, I'd need too long to think about it -- Paul was easily the worst, since not only did he get everything wrong on the task, he also made unforced errors like the improvised burner which I'm pretty sure did not feature anywhere in the task binder -- but aside from Paul, most bad PMs tended to get at least one or two things right, or were undone by their teams as much as their own ineptitude, so are harder to rank.
At least five, thanks.
IMO, although Paul Callaghan was a bad PM, Rory was by far even worse PM, the way Rory treated his team like they were Children, he railroaded his idea on the team despite other idea's on the drawing board then spent the rest of of the task trying to tame Tre with "I A'M THE BOSS" attitude forgetting he was just a PM.
My top 5 all time worst PMs
1 Rory Laing
2 Paul Callaghan
3 Lindsay Bogaard
4 Dan Harris
5 Melissa Cohen, although she was PM of the winning team, she was a bad PM, it was others in her team that helped win the task regardless what Melissa Cohen did, & it was implied by Lord Sugar she'd have been fired had she'd lost that task
4 Paul Torrisi
3 Alexa Tilley
2 Kimberly Davis
1 Jennifer Maguire
4. Rory Laing
3. Lindsay Bogaard
2. Laura (series 6)
1. Ed Hunter
Paul T was PM twice. I assume you are talking about Week 6?
=4th) Alexa Tilley (8)
=4th) Edward Hunter (8)
3rd) Lindsay Bogaard (10)
2nd) Rory Laing (24)
1st) Paul Callaghan (30)
Definitely a two horse race at the moment. The votes will close on Saturday night
He did make the mistake with the oud, but it was it also confused a lot of the people they asked in Dubai.
As he pointed out, it was the sub-team lead by Leah that let him down.
Had it not been for his bragging and his alleged sexism (though we didn't see any actual examples of it) he would have stayed.
4 p: Paul Callaghan
3 p: Rocky
2 p: Alexa Tilley
1 p: Jenny Celerier
4: Rory ("I AM your boss!")
3: Lindsay (Secret signals!)
2: Zee ("Firstly, you can put the maps away...")
1: Jaz ("Yay! Great job on the name by the way!")
4 Paul Callaghan
3 Noorul Choudury
2 Alexa Tilley
1 Melissa Cohen
A masterclass in poor management and pig-headedness. And the dance:eek:
4 points - Paul Callaghan
Probably one of the best episodes ever, but for all the wrong reasons Paul!
3 points - Melissa Cohen
Classically deluded about her abilities. Made even better by her arguing to lead again the next week. Still no doubt she was karmically retributed in the end.
2 point - Noorul Choudhury
He'd been bigging himself up all series and then come his chance he was like a rabbit in the headlights. Ridiculous hunny-in-soap idea only saved by the other team mixing up their cedarwoods and sandalwoods.
1 points - Nargis Ara
Cats to advertise a childrens charity. Still at least we learnt that there are 6 million cat owners in the UK. I haven't finished yet - now I have.
Rachel was the one who did the dance, not Lindsay.
My abiding memory of this task is how utterly broken Michael looked throughout. Beyond terrible. New kinds of atrocious.
4: Noorul Chaudhry (Week 4 - Making soap)
Paula made one mistake - admittedly an enormous one - but managed all other aspects of the task quite well. Noorul, meanwhile, was abominable on pretty much every front. He won by default, and completely by accident.
3: Jason Leech & Luisa Zissman (Week 8 - Dating website)
Incoherent. A total mess. In Jason's defence, he had an absolutely vile subteam. In Luisa's defence, she was saddled with the flimsiest husk of a product to flog. But they both made their own luck. It was shambolic from the first second.
2: Lindsay Bogaard (Week 2 - Secret bloody signals)
Set the bar for terrible PMship, and while she's occasionally been eclipsed, I think this remains the gold standard. Between the bloody-minded devotion to a ludicrous product, the constant overruling of the members of her team who weren't completely dotty, and the abject lack of any kind of self-awareness, it's pretty much carnage on all fronts.
1: Ed Hunter (Week 1 - Fruit & veg)
The quintessential Week One breakdown, and it'd be a crime to have left him out. Brilliant chaos - but his best moments were in the boardroom, rather than on task, so I can't in good conscience rank him higher. He motivated, he sold. Baffling, but not THAT baffling.
We're re-watching this one tonight! Come and join in