Sure each person should be able to handle their individual tasks as delegated to them by the project manager, but if one of his/her subordinates asks for direction or to make a decision, the project manager can't bounce that back at them in order to make a case for the boardroom. Audrey didn't give them direction and when they asked her for direction, she didn't step up as a leader and say 'do this.' If she ended up having to hold someone's hand or do their job for them, she would have had a much better case for herself in the boardroom ('Mr. Trump, I was forced to make this decision because I initially left it up to so-and-so and they could not do, so I not only had to handle other issues but I had to do their job for them'). Then she made the classic mistake of playing around with who to bring in the boardroom. Angie didn't even know she was being brought into the boardroom nor why.