Originally Posted by BMLisa:
“I still won't agree that he was a bad pm. I thought he was very good. He did his market research, phoned Ben and said the most important thing is to keep it simple and don't turn it into a home gym. Ben went straight in and did exactly that! James had delegated the task to him as it was his idea. He then gave instruction over the phone which was ignored by Ben. In fact part of me thinks Ben went in and made a home gym precisely because he was told not to. The PM cannot do both parts of a task so he delegated the bit out to the person who seemed most qualified and who had come up with the idea. as far as James was concerned he had delegated according to his team's strengths. Also Ben attacked him for not saying he thought the product was shit. James did actually say it to us the audience in a talking head, but being a good PM he didn't want to dampen his teams spirits so told them it was brilliant to keep the whole team motivated to sell it. He was actually a good PM but members of his team were set on showing him up. Also they could have won, as Debra had no control over her team, and they only won because Phillip had a lucky eleventh hour idea, had he not, they would have gone with Lorraines crappy ankle exerciser.
On that show I really wanted and expected Debras team to lose they were very very lucky to come up with that idea so late!”
“I still won't agree that he was a bad pm. I thought he was very good. He did his market research, phoned Ben and said the most important thing is to keep it simple and don't turn it into a home gym. Ben went straight in and did exactly that! James had delegated the task to him as it was his idea. He then gave instruction over the phone which was ignored by Ben. In fact part of me thinks Ben went in and made a home gym precisely because he was told not to. The PM cannot do both parts of a task so he delegated the bit out to the person who seemed most qualified and who had come up with the idea. as far as James was concerned he had delegated according to his team's strengths. Also Ben attacked him for not saying he thought the product was shit. James did actually say it to us the audience in a talking head, but being a good PM he didn't want to dampen his teams spirits so told them it was brilliant to keep the whole team motivated to sell it. He was actually a good PM but members of his team were set on showing him up. Also they could have won, as Debra had no control over her team, and they only won because Phillip had a lucky eleventh hour idea, had he not, they would have gone with Lorraines crappy ankle exerciser.
On that show I really wanted and expected Debras team to lose they were very very lucky to come up with that idea so late!”
I think that is a really good post. I agree, James just presents badly, beacause of the way he speaks and interacts. He is actually very good.
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