Are You Sure They Are Unusefull People ?

If you watch the 5th season of the apprentice then you maybe remember one of the apprentice "Brent". Brent is an attorney that have what i think as not so good habit. First of all he's fat and he ate alot during every meeting that his team had. His idea is rather outrageous and he always make their team late in their morning briefing.

So what his fellow team mates do with him ? Because all of the team members agree that brent will screw up the task so they always make brent to work in tasks that they know for sure it's mean nothing for the project. So if he screw up it does'nt hurt the team. "Synergy" the team name, manage to do just like that in a couple of episode. In my opinion they are a very good team except for brent of course :) . But something came up, in one of the episode they lost. And they must let someone to get fired. But whom ?

Of course they want brent to be fired but they know that brent has a good argument to fight because he does'nt get any change to work for the team. And brent, well he's ready to fight.

In the board room, Mr. Trump give this lesson to synergy. Every one even like brent must had talent or ability to do something for the team. Don't let anyone on your team think he's useless.

The lesson that Mr. Trump gave to synergy is also means a lot to me. And i learn from it. Sometime as a leader of a project or a team, we must face a lot of people with different attitude, background, etc. We even find someone as annoying as brent. When we face this matter it's our "protective" nature to try to make someone that we think will be the troublemaker for the project not to do anything that will endangered the team and the project.

Well as a leader i realize that to do something like this is very wrong. As a leader it's our responsibility not only to had a successfull project but also a successfull team. Give everyone a chance to prove and learn something in the team. Everybody is usefull in some way. And it's our duty to place them in the place where they can use all their potential.

But what happen if they always screw up in every task and chances that you gave ?
well you can fired them because you can't find the place for them. But atleast you came up to be the good guy and already try. Less fight needed to fired them in what i think.

So what happen to brent ? well he got fired any way because he consistently attack their project leader and the team as a whole and not because his un-usefull for the team.