...society?

I imagine I'm a bit behind in all this and may not have the best informed point of view, but that shouldn't get in the way of publicly thinking about it out loud, right?
The other day I saw an episode of The Apprentice, a show in which Donald Trump, Capitalist Galore, gives young admirors the possibility to learn from his experience, if I understand the concept correctly. Well, in this particular episode, two teams had to "buy low and sell high", at the end of which the losing team had one of their members fired.
Donald fired the docile team leader, who did her best under the circumstances, accepted her mistakes and took responsibility without making a scene. He did not fire the woman in charge of finances, although money was lost, neither did he fire the woman who - in my humble opinion - made a complete fool of herself screaming and swearing at everybody about how she was going to get the axe. Donald's reasoning was that the team leader didn't stand up for herself to fight.
Now I'm sure there's a valuable lesson in there somewhere, but the question I asked myself was: is it really so desireable to live and work in a society where whoever shouts the loudest wins? Yes, mistakes were made all round and yes, it's important to believe in yourself and stand up for yourself when you think you're being wrong done by, something the fired girl chose not to do as outspokenly as some of the other team members.
What I don't understand is that there was absolutely no mention of her team-building skills, how she involved everybody to secure support of and motivation for the decided course of action, or in other words, her emotional qualities. On the contrary, her team members even stated they would have expected her to take a more severe approach to leadership and not run everything by them. Had she acted the other way round I'm sure the same people would have complained about not feeling involved enough in the decision making process! I mean, if all you really want is someone else thinking for you and simply telling you what to do, may I suggest a career in the military service? All I've ever heard and read about successful management and productive businesses has always involved team work and united efforts!
Have the values of Human Resources Management really not been able to leave even a small a dent in the strategic end of the table in the highrise boardrooms of Trump Towers? Or would that have been bad showbiz?
This little issue could be broadened into reviewing more general aspects of the capitalist society we live in, and what other models could possibly appear more appealing. Unfortunately the other models, and I'm thinking about Marx here, didn't seem to work too well for all involved where they were being implemented. A long time ago I had a conversation about the eradication of the middle class and its dangers, really frightening stuff. And this, in turn, makes me think about man in general, his (and her) intricate need for more. Better, faster, and some more on top of that. We're all greedy, baby, we all want to live well. How can I blame anyone for ambition? As Trump's show made abundantly clear, ambition is something we all have. Some are simply willing to take it that one step further, and the society we've created views those with more respect than those who choose not to go over dead bodies, for information, for money, for power. I'm still dreaming about a world without money, can you imagine that?
Anyway, I guess each and everyone of us has to make up their own minds about leadership styles, how to deal with failure, and whether we're comfortable in the limelight or prefer positions behind the curtain. Guess where I'm standing.
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