Creative multilayered themed event.  Net Worth's project manager, Angie, masterminded an imaginative, fun event centered around a patriotic red, white and blue "political" rally featuring debates about Nescafe's hot and cold coffee.
 

Teamwork.  Net Worth demonstrated that they had gelled as a team. They executed a winning event with no sign of conflict, back stabbing or chaos. Last week's loose cannon, Kristen, must have gotten the word as we saw little of her this week.
 

Praising and acknowledging your team. Angie publicly said that she was "never more proud of my group." Even though the winning idea was hers, she gave her team credit for the win rather than trying to steal the spotlight. As a leader, it is always best to give credit to the team.

Abuse of power and bullying.  Schoolyard bullies should be expelled. When Michael told Danny, "You yell at me one more time and I'm going to throw you out the window," he went way beyond the boundaries of propriety. Bullies should not be tolerated in the workplace ever.
 

Failure to act.  When an employee threatens someone with physical harm in the workplace as Michael did, it must be dealt with swiftly and decisively. While Danny should not have sworn at Michael in the first place, in any workplace there should be a zero-tolerance policy against violence or the threat of violence. Danny should have sent Michael packing.
 

Negotiation skills.  Magna did not actively pursue competing bids by event planners to give the team negotiation leverage, and fell for the oldest sales ploy in the book with the event planner's demand for a decision in 60 seconds! And shouldn't the team have questioned how an event planner could have given a legitimate bid with no theme or direction details about the event from the client.  Trump continues to show that he values negotiation skills. Danny failed to demonstrate that he had those skills.
 

No big idea.  Magna failed to come up with a big idea or theme for its event. Successful marketing requires a connecting theme to the product.
 

Packing your bags and going home. Some failures simply are not recoverable. Verna deserting her team last week was one of them. She was right to leave when she did, her team -- and eventually Trump -- would have eaten her alive.
 

Don't speak for others.  Danny spoke for his entire team when he said they would support Verna. He did not have their permission or buy-in to make this kind of blanket statement that implied their agreement.
 

Ineffective leadership at controlling the loose cannon.  Magna was paralyzed by Michael's antagonistic, pouting, bullying behavior. Again and again, we have seen on this show what an incredibly negative and paralyzing impact one loose cannon can have on the entire team's performance. What we have not seen is effective management by team leaders to contain and redirect these people. Danny's fatal lapse was in his failure to manage Michael effectively. Danny recognized he had a problem child but did not have the skills to resolve it.
 

Not establishing decision-making guidelines or clear role responsibilities. Danny failed upfront to clearly establish guidelines for how decisions would be made with his team. This resulted in his being pinned in Trump's boardroom for being indecisive. Vendor negotiation responsibility or authority was never assigned nor delegated clearly. Danny could have delegated vendor selection with decision-making authority to Stephanie. In doing so, he would have avoided the decision-making fiasco that followed over hiring the event planner.