Last night Lucinda showed that you don't have to be loud and aggressive to be the project manager.

In the past, I think some of the others have confused her style/approach to the tasks as lazy just because she's not as 'full on' as they are.

I know the loud and aggressive approach makes for good TV but which style do you prefer and is Lucinda lazy? ?

Lucinda - far from lazy. Knows her own strengths and weaknesses, (not her fault that Helene refused to listen, then lied, over the techie comment in the photography task). Also played to the strengths of her team - oh how she must have shocked those hardnosed witches with her managerial skills last night.

I prefer Lucinda's style, hands down. I'm someone of advanced years and througout my working life I have never seen anyone suceed by bullying, shouting and hectoring. All signs of weakness IMO. Softly softly cathchee monkey as they say.

I don't think Lucinda will be the Apprentice but I think she just might have a media career, if that's what she wants of course. How the other woman won't like that !!

I liked lucindas style of management more, it was refreshing to see someone get postive results with out bullying or belittling their team.

I think the other contestants see her as weak because she has a more gentle & postive approach to management
& that is why they are targeting her to try & get rid of.
But I'm glad Siralun genrally seems to see through what they are attempting & they are only making them selves look decetful & incompetant.

They only thing I have to say about lucinda she need to stand up to people like Jennifer a little more.

I have to agree with you, although I also thought she should have stood her ground with making the team switch, but then you can't really blame her for not wanting to, after the bashing she's had in the other shows, she probably just couldn't face any further confrontation.

I think Lucinda comes across as a very nice reasonable person, and I'd be happy if she was my boss.

Lucinda is fine as long as you put her in the appropriate skill set!

Lucinda (plus to a lesser extent Raef) are the only ones so far to have demonstrated the basic premise that the purpose of the "Project Manager" is to facilitate and coordinate activities and not to be a micro-managing belligerent boss.
As they say people are happy to be led, but nobody likes a boss!

I felt she performed very well in the task light night, only to be let down by the narcissism in the sales team.

She could have been a little more forceful in changing the teams, but I fully understand her backing down when she saw that breaking the sales clique would cause conflict.
Which as it turned out was to their detriment rather than hers.

I thought she did really well, and got the best out of her team.

I thought it was a shame when SirAlan scoffed at her in the boardroom when she said she was pleased that everyone on her team had enjoyed themselves or had fun (can't remember quite how she phrased it...?)

I think what she was trying to say, and should have said, was that because they were enjoying themselves they performed well.

It was a valid point about her leadership that I feel he dismissed too quickly.

I agree. People can interpret a non-confrontational, gentle approach a a sign of weakness. It's a great shame. I was so glad Margaret recognised this as a strength.

I think Lucinda will hae to stand up to many of the candidates especially Helene and Claire who are particulary brusque and outspoken.

I would much prefer Lucinda as my manager than any of the others. I like her approach and i feel i would actually have respect for her. The others are not worthy of respect.

I think it's a bit of a stretch to assume her approach 'works' based on the potentially lucky result of one task. From my perspective, she failed to really set the ground rules for the teams, and in the main just bowed down to their will.

This democratic style may be a 'good thing' if you've got a lot of faith in the people you are delegating to, but in the game they are playing, she really failed to show she could 'manage' much other than getting people to play nice if you seperate them into smaller groups.

On the one hand she is a good communicator, seems calm and willing to make decisions, however I also perceive her to lack authority and to be knowledgable or informed (or seek to become so) about the tasks she's been involved in. I really didn't like her 'I don't do technical' bit, as it showed a rigid inflexibility and lack of ability to learn (there was a guy showing her how to do it all, she should have written copious notes or asked for a set of instructions!).

I reserve judgement on her being a 'better' manager than others, however I'm a firm believer that autocratic management doesn't work either - you need a good balance of both to be successful.

Helena also claimed no technical knowledge - didn't see her putting herself out as a backup.

Agreed - she was quite happy for Lucinda to burn, however this is a gameshow, a competition, they are each rooting for the others to lose, so is it fair to criticise on that basis?

I think it was unfair of Helena to call Lucinda lazy when she demurred at a task where she felt less than confident, when she herself refused to learn the skills as backup. Of course they all want to win - but not all of them are prepared to sacrifice all principles to do so.

it just showed up that Helene isn't a team player

neither of them impressed me on that task but I vastly prefer Lucinda's management style. She should have been a bit more forceful but she was right about enjoying it. A happy team is a productive team in my experience

Helene went further than to claim no technical knowledge - she claimed her technical knowledge was 'far behind that of Lucinda' which makes it difficult to work out how she manages to get to work in the mornings. And then she claims Lucinda is the spawn of the devil. Strange girl.

I thought Lucinda had some great management qualities. She delegated, she listened, she was firm and clear.

Sadly she has a team of backstabbers, bitches and people who want you to crack and say something to make you get fired.

She sometimes says the wrong thing but partly it is to defend herself - she sees they're being unfair but can't quite get it across.

I would far rather work for someone like her than Claire (vile), Jenny - a bully, Jennifer - very sneaky, Helene - scary, can't remember the other girls they just disappear into the background.

As for the blokes - good grief. They're so green it's like junior school. Alex is nice to look at but a bit whiny. The rest well just yuk.

God only knows how Sirallun will find someone he wants out of this shower.

She showed herself to be a good manager, but I would still query her ability to work as part of a team. Sure she can lead, but can she follow?

I am sure she would follow and show herself as a good team player if her project manager treated her with some respect. In previous tasks two of her project managers decided to try and use her as a scapegoat should their team loose the obnoxious Jenny bullied her so badly she made her cry and the equally hideous Helene deliberately gave her something she couldn't do in order to show her i a bad light.

I reckon those vile women (all excluding Sara) see Lucinda as their biggest threat to winning and will do all they can to undermine her. Hope she's strong enough to stand up to them and they are all fired long before her.

I thought she was a very good manager in terms of organisation but she should have asserted her authority more. It's simple , people only get trodded on by others when they allow it to happen.

Definitley Lucinda's. Lucinda to win

Lucinda's management style was a refreshing change to the bitchfest all around her. And as for Helene calling her lazy the words pot, kettle and black spring to mind.

Helene just got on with when Lucinda was pm. She didn't make life difficult for Lucinda.
It wouldn't surprise me if Lucinda had been lazy and a bit of a moaner in the previous tasks when she was being managed.

To be quite honest, in the task which Helene managed, I saw Lucinda do far more work than her. Helene just seemsed to stand around, bark orders and be a general bitch.

I actullay liked her style as a PM at first, she seemed organised and calm. I felt the second day as PM she looked unsure and she did not come across as leading the team at all.

Her idea of mixing the teams was great and I think would have worked much better but she bottled actually dividing them so she failed in reality.

I do not think she kept an eye on sales the second day. I know she put Lindi in charge of sales but she was the manager and should take some responsibility for not overseeing that side of things. I think Lucinda was let off lightly really and wont go the distance

The moment she started slagging Jennifer (weither deserved or not) in the boardroom she lost my respect and I think it may yet be her downfall