Blog post #8 Chapter 5

The episode “Gettin’ To Crunch Time” had many intense moments. Leadership was brought in when Jon had the idol and decided to lie by saying that he didn’t have it so that Jeremy can  look like a lie and he can choose to do what he wants with everyone else. In my opinion Jon could of made another strategic decision by telling everyone that he had an idol so that Jeremy wouldn’t have to look for it and so that he can have everyone’s trust and look even better. Jon thought he would have the power if his strategy of making Jeremy look like a lie worked because everyone can look at Jeremy and wrong to vote him out. I would say that Jeremy was the relationship-motivated leader because even though he didn’t really have an alliance with anyone but Natalie he wanted to build an alliance with Jon and Kelly by giving them the reward he earned.

The task motivated leader would be Bailor because she managed to win the challenge with her feet. The group is having difficulties with one another and she able to be the task motivated leader. Member readiness was played out in this episode when the members knew that Josh had left from the previous episode and they saw a great competitor leave the game. I think that the group members gained confidence and felt like they had better chances of playing the game better by having someone competitive leave. This episode was really good and I hope that the next episode gets even more intense.