Originally Posted by LIZALYNN:
“Jenna was a very good PM. She is never one to hide in the background and I like her for that.
There are some candidates who I am still not sure what their names are.”
I disagree. Jenna has had a tendency to run around flapping and making a lot of noise, but without contributing anything useful. She certainly is willing and has loty of energy, but empty vessels make the most noise ...
An example. In the gadget task, at one point in the brainstorm she cut across a conversation to say to Jane something that basically amounted to "it's up to you to have the ideas for us", which was shockingly poor. She does not take responsibility for making/driving key decisions.
Having said that, this week I think Jenna did OK. She managed the team reasonably well but she did not really lead it. It looked more like she was reliant on other people's ideas and energy to drive the task forward - Gabrielle's idea, the team's commitment to quality, Nick urging her to drop prices late in the day, Ricky and Laura to pick out locations. Too often we saw shots of her looking flummoxed at the responsiblity of making decisions.
My point: I think Jenna over-delegated and didn't really have a clear strategy of her own. Now that's a million times better than Adam, who thought he knew everything and could just rely on his mate Stephen, but if I compare it to Tom's stint as PM (the junk shop task) where he set the strategy and stuck to it, Jenna was unconvincing.
