I don’t remember hearing Ivanka suggest that but I don’t think it would have worked. Omarosa would have seen through that as a ploy to get rid of her and she wanted to be right there with Piers to keep goading him. She knew what she was doing and Piers was broadsided by it all.

I wonder, though, what company would want to hire Omarosa after seeing her performance on the show? The only thing she can hang her hat on now is show business.

I suspect that his inability to recognize when to disengage from such a toxic personality was a shadow side of his usually positive trait of tenacity. And, given that Omarosa made sure she grabbed the accounting task because she knew that recommendation for firing was keyed to personal funds raised, he couldn’t simply walk away from her. If she was capable of such a dirty tactic as personal insults, she could have just as easily committed fraud with the books.

His first mistake was taking the misspelling of his name so personally. That was just her ploy to get him riled – he should have known that. After that exchange, he was putty in her hands. Had he simply ignored it, she might have still caused trouble, but I doubt it would have escalated as much as it did. I think Ivanka’s suggestion to send Omarosa off into Central Park on a fool’s errand to separate her from the rest of the team might have worked.

On the mens team … Tito is under the radar. Baldwin is not a winner (Stoney, don’t fight me on this one . Country singer comes up with good ideas but no one saw him really lead. That’s it. To me the only “leader”, maybe a bit nasty but a better leader than others is Pierce. By the way … the only reason a few people don’t want to work for him is because as a celebrity they all have big egos and having Pierce boss them around or point out things in them makes them flip out. I think that if Pierce was given a team of real employees, he’d shine.

Complimenting pissy people only works if the compliments are genuine. Otherwise it still counts as a response to the game of nasty.

There is a way of dealing with attacks such as the ones that came from Omarosa. You simply deny the person’s ability to be as mean as they are at the moment and tell it to their face. As they bash you, you in return can complement them and vocalize good things within that person.

You see … when people try to pick a fight with you, they are looking for you to fight back and the more fighting back you do the more ammunition you give them to go at it. Now … when you do not fall for that trap, they have nothing to keep fighting on.

Ignoring the attacker is a good strategy but if they are a real pain in the ass they’ll just keep going and going. If you instead complement them and truly find good things in them and tell it to their face … that is exactly what will make the attacker feel like a true “ass”. Give it a bit of time and they’ll stop.

A Dale Carnegie book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” should be read by all.