Well, why not? Shouldn’t we look for inspiration and insight anywhere we can get it? If you’re like me, you probably spend a long day at work then come home and want to decompress a bit. Even though these shows are billed as reality, we all know they are opportunities for escapism. After all, how many of us live like a Bravo housewife (and come on, last time I checked housewives were married) or have an opportunity to leave our real lives behind for two months to live in a house with 12 strangers while cameramen record our every move from inside the walls?
Again, if you’re like me, you flip through the channels and see the train wrecks coming a mile away and stop flipping to see the aftermath. Then there are those moments of Zen and you celebrate the victories of the people who deserve to win the competition (you know you dialed that phone over and over for your favorite idol... Don’t deny it!).
So let’s not make it a colossal waste of time… There are lessons that can be learned from these shows and the “characters” who play out their flaws, ambitions, and aspirations right before our eyes. If we focus on what can be learned there are nuggets of advice that we can use to help us manage our staff, our resources, and ourselves.
I just want to make one clarification: I manage a very small staff and they are in no way my inspiration for this blog. I’m writing about management in the broadest sense of the word. I’m not going to work wearing a WWJLD bracelet* or voting staff members out of the office. But I do think that observing people in a variety of situations with varying levels of stress is the best way to predict behavior in the people in our everyday lives. Get your inspiration wherever you might be… As it just so happens when I'm not at work I’m usually on the couch watching reality TV.
* What Would Jeff Lewis Do?
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