The Apprentice as Team Builder
Recently one of the teams in my division used a mock competition based on ‘The Apprentice’ as a team building exercise. Luckily nobody got fired, and it turned out to be a good team builder. But I somehow doubt that thereality TV show as actually practiced demonstrates a good way to get people in a productive and cooperative frame of mind.
Interestingly, people exposed to business artifacts tend to be more aggressive and less cooperative. Some might say that the results show competition, and ?competition is good?. But there is a difference between competition and unproductive aggression, and the word replacement test looks suspiciously like the ?point subtraction aggression paradigm?. People exposed to business artifacts tend toward the disposition of a drunken brawler; that can’t be good.