Category Archives: You’re fired

Giving the nod to Lord Sugar

Posted on July 8, 2011 by

If you have an annoying trait it gets mercilessly thrown back at you on BBC’s Apprentice. By Episode 10, inventor Professor Tom Pellereau’s incessant nodding has started to grate on us, and Lord Sugar in particular. How bizarre then, that on this … Continue reading →

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This is a process of elimination

Posted on July 5, 2011 by

Blundering about on BBC’s Apprentice each week may be “a learning process”. Tom hoped this would be ok in last week’s lamentable biscuit episode, but it cuts no mustard with Lord Sugar. In exchange for a £ quarter million investment, … Continue reading →

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Miss Ellie miss-fires

Posted on June 2, 2011 by

In BBC’s Apprentice Episode 5 there are some serious sackings going on! After about 30 seconds we knew that Vince wasn’t going to make it through. Chosen as project manager by Lord Sugar, Vince had to invent some dog food with the … Continue reading →

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Vincent van Cloche

Posted on May 19, 2011 by

Was this week’s painting of the Apprentice “team” a masterpiece or a mess? When I heard the task was the annual “buy things you’ve never heard of”, I knew we were in for a challenge. The show did not disappoint. … Continue reading →

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Apprentice Alex: “it’s a total mess”!

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

This week’s task on BBC’s Apprentice was about advertising a cleaning product. The losing team picked “Germ-o-nator” as a brand. It didn’t exactly clean up. Both teams were very poor, but somehow we’ve been there before with this task. And … Continue reading →

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How do you solve a problem like Melissa?

Posted on November 1, 2010 by

My apologies to “The Sound of Music”, but BBC’s Apprentice Melissa Cohen, represents a real conundrum to modern day businesses and communities. In the film, very un-nun-like “Maria” played by screen legend Julie Andrews, represents a big problem for the … Continue reading →

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What happens if you mess up?

Posted on October 22, 2010 by

It’s all very well writing about leadership and integrity in business and in the community, but what happens when we get it wrong? What happens when we totally blow it? Is there hope after a disaster? Well it’s true that our … Continue reading →

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How does Surgeon Apprentice get the chop?

Posted on October 21, 2010 by

It was good to see Karren Brady and Nick Hewer getting more air time in Episode 3 of BBC’s The Apprentice. They are Lord Sugar’s unbiased eyes and ears. They don’t miss much. For the edited highlights we get to … Continue reading →

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With regret, you’re fired!

Posted on October 13, 2010 by

An MD I used to work with, told me once that he’d never had a bad sacking. By this he meant that those employees he had had to part company with, had accepted it was the right thing to do, … Continue reading →

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