Do you watch the apprentice and always think to yourself -
I could do better than that. I absolutely love the way that
the apprentice gets you involved in the programme.
I often think to myself how can you not understand the task
that has been set for you by Sir Alan Sugar. Why does
nobody at the start of each task actually seem to sit down
and analyse exactly what the task is about. Each week they
all seem to run about like headless chickens and not
concentrate on the major aspect of the task.
Has the emphasis of being an entrepreneur shifted
throughout the series to just being a sales person? It
seems to me that there is more importance attached to
selling than spirit in the show. However as any businessman
knows without selling there is no profit!
I just feel that it's the sales persons job to sell and the
entrepreneur's job to have the vision for the whole concept
and then direct the salespeople to sell the product and the
concept. Of course any good entrepreneur has to be able to
sell, but do they have to be the best salesperson?
There also always seems to be a natural split in the
contestants that becomes apparent which is the academic
versus the experienced. Like in one of the American series
where Donald trump split the contestants using that
criterion to make the divide between the two teams. They
each seem to have a view on what is the best and that view
is based upon their own experience or their qualifications.
I would have thought it obvious that it is the person
combined with the qualification or experience that would
make the best candidate. It also seems that they either are
educated or have experience whereas surely the ideal
candidate would be somebody with a good education and real
life experience.
The contestants for the show all seem to think that you
have to be arrogant to be successful in business and I
think that they are getting arrogance and confidence
confused. Who wants to do business with somebody who is
arrogant? Whereas somebody who is confident and can build
confidence in others so that they are confident that they
will be able to deliver on their promises is exactly the
type of person that we would all like to do business with.
I know that this is a TV show and ultimately somebody who
is already successful and highly educated would not
necessarily want to work for Sir Alan as the £100k
job would not be that much of a pull. However as Sir Alan
readily acknowledges it is not about the money it's about
working with him and the knowledge and experience that the
right person can get from working with him. That has to be
the ultimate prize.
If you want to be successful then you need to be constantly
learning and adapting to changing circumstances. Whether
you are learning from your own experience or from the
experience of others or by traditional education (which is
really the experience of others) you are still learning and
that's the important part.
Obviously learning by itself is not enough you also need to
be driven, dedicated, intelligent, ambitious, resourceful
and have the right personality coupled with maybe a little
bit of luck as well. However learning has to be an
important part of that pot of skills.
So keep watching the apprentice - I know I will and I will
keep laughing at all the schoolboy errors that they make -
I suppose that's the problem with TV personality wannabes.
I wonder how different the competitors would be if there
were no TV show?
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