Ivana was a good support person, bad leader. She was the type a leader might want to have on their team. She exhibited so-so communication skills and an inability to express herself. Also, in both tasks she failed as leader, she did not handle the early phases well and was forced to take drastic measures toward the end, realizing that the other team was doing much better than hers. She easily deserved to be fired. I thought she was especially embarrassing this last episode. If you're going to lose, at least lose with a little dignity. Then again, some people might see it as she was willing to do whatever necessary to be successful. Obviously not Caroline though.
Jen is all style, no substance and unfortunately, is the type who too often does well in corporate America today. I think the final interviews will find her lacking to some extent. Sandy, has the least education and is the least versatile, but I think it's impressive that she got to the final four. Kevin is OK, but has made some bad decisions. He stays calm under pressure though and I think that's a good thing. Kelly seems to be the most versatile, and seems to have knack for getting people to do good work. I'd go with Kelly to win.
I think these sell candy bars/lemonade/whatever episodes are pretty ridiculous. Usually it ends up being a situation where whichever team's women are more willing to do more questionable things ends up determining the winner. It seemed that the only way Ivana, Kevin and Kelly were going to beat Jen and Sandy was on sales volume. They would have been better off trying to sell 500+ bars @ $2 each, than trying to compete on price and salesmanship with less volume. Face it, men are bigger suckers for two blonde, provocatively dressed women peddling $5 candy bars than men (or anyone for that matter) will be for three normally dressed people hawking cheaper ones. As much as people want to denounce the use of sex to sell, these episodes just show its success as a sales tactic. Go back to the ice cream episode where Ivana (who, ironically, was leader in her first loss) specifically said she didn't want to use sex appeal to sell the ice cream. What happened? Aside from just poor organization, the women lost because they didn't use it enough and the men actually put it to use (flirting with women, getting attractive women to help serve the ice cream, etc). NBC obviously does this for ratings and the "OMG! What are they doing?" factor, yet in the boardrooms of these episodes, it invariably is mentioned and frowned upon. So which way is it supposed to be? You don't want the sex factor, don't give these types of tasks.