The sign of good managers is how they make their points and be able to persuade people with their arguments - a call for action. Just like Eskimos selling ice, Tana can sell moonshine to the Hicks. For instance, Tana can get the job done, even though she didn't agree with Craig with his storage idea. Craig works well with Tana, but not so much with Audrey and Kendra. He won't take crap or any nonsense.
It was Tana who carried him across the finished line by impressing the Home Depot Executives with the family interaction - the kiddie handprints on the storage truck. Tana can take a failing idea and revive it to a winner. This is a rare intuitive skill for which Tana excells at week to week in these episodes. There is NO DOUBT I would want her on my team over all the other male or female Apprentices this season. And I can smell snakeoil salespeople far away.
She knows how to convey her ideas at the Domino Pizza event..... "sauce, sauce, sauce.... cheese, cheese, cheese.... etc" Tana sells her colleagues on an Italian-themed pizza creation.
Craig in this episode #13 really gathered LOTS of momentum coming down the last half of the Apprentice season, roaring like a tiger instead of his previous Mickey Mouse personality from weeks #1 thru #8. Tana brings out the best in Craig... makes him a man instead of a mouse. Here is what I wrote in that other board, comparing Craig and Kendra.
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To answer your question Trencher, about the merits of Craig in Apprentice 3, he was likewise a slow starter exactly like Kendra for the first half of the season. Both had avoided taking leadership positions as the project manager until the last half of season coming down the stretch. But Craig has lots more vision, creativity and life-experience than Kendra the Pout.
<<< Can someone make the pro case for Craig in a reasoned way becuase I would like to hear it and am open-minded towards hearing it.>>>
I had said earlier that Craig has the natural ability to turn a worn out dirty pair of shoes and make it look like brand new - by "spit shining." Craig holds lots of invisible power to influence people. Will go far but not able to win on this good earth. Craig has chutzpah but is no Kwame with style, class and education.
Craig and Tana promote Magna's celebrity experiences during the FUSE auction task.
Kendra took the helm week #8 and it was both Craig and Tana who came over to her team Magna that helped Kendra win the Fuse Rock and Roll Auction. Craig had taken the lead with Tana in doing the TV presentation and solicited the highest celebrity bids to win for Kendra. In week #12, it was again Craig and Tana who initially designed the circular Pontiac Solstice brochure and both yawn and fell asleep waiting 12 hours for slow-poke Kendra to get her small four pages of text to complete the promotional package. Both Craig and Tana had finished their portion 6 hours into the competition. Craig kept reminding Kendra repeatedly over the next 20 hours that she needed to come up with a brochure theme and direction for her few text message before they got disgusted and tired out.
Moment of truth: Magna and Net Worth hear the results of the FUSE auction task.
If you looked closely in the last half of season, each time Kendra became PM, she relied on Craig and Tana to win. And each time after Kendra, Craig stepped up to win as the project manager:
1. In week #9, Craig the PM was the master-mind that brainstormed the original idea in Home Depot with his winning idea of the storage box. Kendra didn't do much to help except to blow up some baloons.
2. In week #13, Craig the PM again exemplified his winning creativity with the four sides of the portrait slider in maximizing the capacity of holding the most desk materials, as opposed to Kendra finding out from the focus group people wanted single stackers.
Kendra was complaining that Craig went off searching and brainstorming with office sliders. Kendra thinks linear, while Craig the project manager came up with a 3-D design that rotates for office convenience.
Craig is like a gentleman; he opens the door and lets the females walk in first. Then he is the knock out punch that finishes off the competition. He respects women and has lots of experience in raising 3 daughters of his own.
He might be always a step behind Tana, but seems to know about practicality, building things and parental advice when assuming leading roles. Of course working with strong manager like Tana helps his longevity on Apprentice 3. During the office invention task, Craig uses a little acting skill to illustrate the clutter dilemma facing workers across America. Then he plays the role of a clumsy worker pushing over a bunch of his pens and pencils, cluttering the desktop for dramatic effect.
Craig knocking on the door of destiny - he survived this long: Magna Corporation arrives at Staples to present their office invention, a four-sided desktop organizer.
He was underestimated as being lazy and too timid like a mouse. Week #13 was a battle between two mice - The Minnie Mouse Kendra and The Mighty Mouse Craig. Here are some facts based on their Staple's innovation product design discussions to which I based my evaluation of Kendra lacking vision, practicality and big ideas to lead a company to profitability.
Some might credit Kendra for holding the focus group and supposedly came up with the brilliant idea of the stackable for the Magna Corp office innovation. It was Craig the project manager with his practicality and Tana's support that came up with the four-sided lazy susan idea as responded to George to relieve the desk clutters.
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Kendra to camera: Craig wasn’t part of the focus group. I do not know why. I haven’t had the slightest clue what Craig was doing. I haven’t had the slightest clue.
(Craig bent over with a notepad to the floor sample office desk examining independently the sliders and shelving)
Craig to Kendra: “I’m just trying to see the dimensions of the usage for that, what’s your concept of the stackable?
Craig speaking to the camera: Kendra was bent on stackable thing but she could not conceptualize it.
Kendra trying to follow Craig’s demonstration with the stackables.
Craig: This is going to make a perfect square, if we had three more of these (rotating it.) You follow me? Every sides is the filing system.
Kendra to the camera whining: Craig took my idea with the stackable, it stinks for me…But the bottom line is we’re able to come up with the idea that the consumer shared with us that they want it.
George to Craig: Craig, what are you going with?
Craig answering George: There’s going to be four sides. Instead of the portrait, we’re going with the landscape.
Tana shown holding the stackable sideways, demonstrating the folder side entry.
Craig to the camera about his team’s decision: We chose to go vertical as opposed to horizontal because of the size issue. We wanted to make sure it’s compact still, our storage center.
Craig addressing his team: Let’s try to keep it simple and stay with, portrait all round (rotating his index finger in the air,) standard size paper.
Tana to the camera agreeing and nodding with approval (smiling.)
Kendra to the camera acting confused: Shrugging her shoulders, face in a daze.
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Kendra to Tana: Do you put your stuff in the filing folders?
Tana to Kendra: Yes, mine do, but we’re going to do it this way.
Kendra: Do we have a design for them because I thought the whole point of having the stackable was for files, folders… Isn’t that the whole point to have
Craig to the camera: Not for folders but for filing loose papers.
Tana demonstrating to Kendra: These go like this (horizontally,) but our files go like this (vertically)
Kendra looks puzzled once again:
Craig to the camera: Kendra wants files that are horizontal. If I put horizontal folders in my vertical products in there, they’re going to ask us why do you have horizontal folders in your verticle product,
Tana demonstrating to Kendra once again: These go like this, but ours files go like this.
Craig to Kendra: Like that, that’s how you use these
Kendra to Craig: I thought the whole purpose of stackables was for the file folders and other stuff. Won’t this misrepresent our product if we don’t have them?
Craig to Kendra: Misrepresent the product? I’m trying to show you how it doesn’t misrepresent our product. We’re going to run this by you slowly, okay?
Kendra to Craig: That’s condescending.. and I’m trying to ….
Kendra The Pout goes into a tizzy…
Craig to Kendra: Well, I’m just trying to talk to you in a common sense way…
Kendra to the camera: This is the way Craig talks to me every single day. And I’m sick of it. I’m just so offended that he talks to me as if I’m 5 years old.
Craig looks down on the floor, rolling his eye and shaking his head.
Kendra goes wiggling her nose and making funny faces… being totally frustrated and confused.
If Craig makes it to the final two, which he should when compared to Kendra, he will get slammed by Tana. I doubt Trump/Burnett will have the final two both be women.
The sign of good managers is how they make their points and be able to persuade people with their arguments - a call for action. Just like Eskimos selling ice, Tana can sell moonshine to the Hicks. 
For instance, Tana can get the job done, even though she didn't agree with Craig with his storage idea. Craig works well with Tana, but not so much with Audrey and Kendra. He won't take crap or any nonsense. 
It was Tana who carried him across the finished line by impressing the Home Depot Executives with the family interaction - the kiddie handprints on the storage truck. Tana can take a failing idea and revive it to a winner. This is a rare intuitive skill for which Tana excells at week to week in these episodes. There is NO DOUBT I would want her on my team over all the other male or female Apprentices this season. And I can smell snakeoil salespeople far away. 
She knows how to convey her ideas at the Domino Pizza event..... "sauce, sauce, sauce.... cheese, cheese, cheese.... etc" Tana sells her colleagues on an Italian-themed pizza creation. 
04-17-2005 08:49 PM
Craig in this episode #13 really gathered LOTS of momentum coming down the last half of the Apprentice season, roaring like a tiger instead of his previous Mickey Mouse personality from weeks #1 thru #8. Tana brings out the best in Craig... makes him a man instead of a mouse. 
To answer your question Trencher, about the merits of Craig in Apprentice 3, he was likewise a slow starter exactly like Kendra for the first half of the season. Both had avoided taking leadership positions as the project manager until the last half of season coming down the stretch. But Craig has lots more vision, creativity and life-experience than Kendra the Pout. 
Craig and Tana promote Magna's celebrity experiences during the FUSE auction task.
Moment of truth: Magna and Net Worth hear the results of the FUSE auction task. 
Kendra was complaining that Craig went off searching and brainstorming with office sliders. Kendra thinks linear, while Craig the project manager came up with a 3-D design that rotates for office convenience. 
Craig is like a gentleman; he opens the door and lets the females walk in first. Then he is the knock out punch that finishes off the competition. He respects women and has lots of experience in raising 3 daughters of his own.
He was underestimated as being lazy and too timid like a mouse. Week #13 was a battle between two mice - The Minnie Mouse Kendra and The Mighty Mouse Craig. Here are some facts based on their Staple's innovation product design discussions to which I based my evaluation of Kendra lacking vision, practicality and big ideas to lead a company to profitability.
Some might credit Kendra for holding the focus group and supposedly came up with the brilliant idea of the stackable for the Magna Corp office innovation. It was Craig the project manager with his practicality and Tana's support that came up with the four-sided lazy susan idea as responded to George to relieve the desk clutters.
“I’m just trying to see the dimensions of the usage for that, what’s your concept of the stackable? 
Craig, what are you going with? 
Tana shown holding the stackable sideways, demonstrating the folder side entry.
Misrepresent the product? I’m trying to show you how it doesn’t misrepresent our product. We’re going to run this by you slowly, okay? 
Kendra The Pout goes into a tizzy… 
