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Business Rule #7:
Keep Your Opinions to Yourself
October 21, 2004
In the very words of Stacy Rotner herself, “The witch is dead; the witch is dead!” I’m so happy that I’m going to have a glass of imported champagne and make a toast to Donald Trump for making The Apprentice watchable again.
Did anyone else notice that the task this week involved cleaning and massaging yapping little dogs while Stacy herself yapped like a Chihuahua who got her tail caught under a rocking chair? I have disliked this candidate from day one! She is the verbal equivalent of a jack of all trades: she has an opinion on everything but yet is well versed in none!
How many times have I written here to keep your mouth shut? I really believe that Stacy should have been awarded a consolation prize for her time on the show: a giant tube of Super Glue to forever seal that incredibly annoying and non-stop big trap of hers. When a person talks so much to her own detriment, you should make sure to distance yourself from her in business at all costs. Opinionated know-it-alls like Stacy always have something to say irrespective of the fact that they know nothing at all.
Please allow me to illustrate what I mean!
Just today, I spoke at a nearby high school for career day. I’m an energetic speaker, and I dare say, teens love me for it. I always drive home the point that they should make success their motto and they should strive for it every single day of their lives. But that’s not why I bring it up...
I arrive at the school at my appointed time and am taken to a conference room to wait. Inside this room, I’m waiting with other professionals from the surrounding area. I’m sitting in a corner with my assistant and all we’re offered are two-day-old donuts and the worst tasting orange juice you could imagine, all while listening to a male Stacy R. going on and on about everything from real estate to martial arts, both subjects with which I’m intimately familiar. This guy didn’t have the slightest clue what he was talking about, saying stupid things like, “Developers drive up the cost of homes so that when you lose your job, you have to take equity out of your home to pay the bills, but then you can’t pay the bills…” I just wanted to scream, “WOULD YOU SHUT UP!!!” Lucky for me, my phone has a built-in MP3 player; so I just cranked up the tunes and let it go.
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The guy won’t stop. Now he’s offering advice on love (although he mentioned that he had been divorced… twice), finances (even though he had brought up that he was starting out “at the ground floor” of a new company), and travel (although he might not have said it, I would wager good money that he’s never been anywhere). I did all I could to keep myself from bursting out laughing.
Over the last few weeks on The Apprentice, Stacy has consistently offered up ill-begotten advice on how a leader should lead but has never once stepped up to lead herself! Now, for all of you Stacy supporters preparing to inundate my inbox with your pro-Stacy comments, let me shine light on how she nearly made the gargantuan mistake of begging in the boardroom. Faced with the prospect of getting fired, she said, “I would love to be project manager.” Yes, my dear friends, she came very close to begging to stay on The Apprentice. What happened to all of her great advice? Hey, what about the interview where she yapped that Wes “made some very wrong decisions…and he’s going to be fired.”
Wrong-o!
You and your diminutive advice were fired—and it’s high time. I imagine that that idiot at career day has gotten fired from his share of boardrooms in life as well. It’s amazing, isn’t it? The people who know nothing and have nothing to show for it always seem to be the first ones to give advice. Stacy was always armed with a ton of knowledge about what it takes to be a leader but never led. Trust me, the people who offer the timeless ditty of “money is the root of all evil” usually don’t have any! So why take their advice? It’s like taking leadership advice from Stacy R.
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When a person talks so much to her own detriment, you should make sure to distance yourself from her in business at all costs.
