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Alan Sugar/Your Fired Got It Totally Wrong Having A Problem With Laura!!!..... |
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No way! I had to sign up an account just to get this off my chest. I think, on pure business acumen alone, Laura is probably the worst candidate in the entire six series so far!
This task should really have been a whitewash in Alex's team's favour, what with them having not one but two self proclaimed marketing experts in Alex and Laura, and being up against a team led by an army sniper, consisting of two bankers, a property developer and a cleaning company owner (who was effectively sidelined by the army sniper anyway). The way I saw it was that yet again, Laura got absolutely everything wrong in terms of business / marketing decisions. She criticised Germonator as a bad brand name (Lord Sugar said the brand name was good), she had big involvement in designing the container on the first day which is what eventually lost the task for them, she criticised Sandeesh's pitch which it was stated was the best part of their campaign. On top of that was the constant harping, moaning and wailing. With the right campaign Blitz potentially could have beaten OctoKleen, but it's not just a case of putting a word out there and expecting that to be good enough, especially if you claim to be experienced at marketing. It doesn't look like she had any conviction in the idea because at the latter team brainstorm, when it was settled that they would go with Germonator, she did not mention it at all. I suppose she is young, and she did a good job in front of the TV camera last week so she is not totally useless, but that's pretty much all she is any good for on what has been shown so far. Even Sophocles & Norule had better basic business acumen! |
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Depends how you define business acumen. What Sugar has is something more basic. Sugar calling Germanator a good idea didn't mean it was one. It was a more sensible idea than the tenous link with octopuses, but he also thought that idea worked when it manifestly didn't and allowed the other team to win with a totally dud idea. Laura made every call right this week and its hardly her fault that Alex wasn't smart enough to listen to her. Its hardly the first time either that his Lordship and/or Nick has tried to back a hopeless blokey male over a female who dared to notice that they had no clothes. If they sound at all negative he gets rid of them and if they don't say anything he gets rid of them claiming they should have been more vocal. It tells you far more about Sugar than it does the candidates.
Well business acumen is the ability to be able to run a business and make the correct decisions. Alex & Laura were equally terrible on this task. The wisest words in the episode came from Jo, when she said something along the lines of 'Get the product right, and the rest will follow'. In the end, neither team got the product right and so in Sugar's words, neither team won, but Christopher's team avoided losing. I think if it had been Alex & Laura in the firing line against each other Laura would have gone, because she hasn't got any decision right in any task, whereas Alex at least has done one or two things that have shown he has at least a modicum of savvy. But they were both terrible and both should've gone, they both claimed to be marketing experts, and were both shown up as being useless at their discipline. If they were doing an army assault course, and Alex & Laura beat Christopher into 3rd place, Christopher would surely be totally humiliated. Yesterday, Alex was humiliated and Laura should've been too. She was jointly responsible for the aspects of the campaign that led to the team's loss. |
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Laura could go far in the process if she didn't whinge so much. She has to learn to take control confidently.
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Sandeesh is better than Sophocles though.
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Sophocles was a moral bankrupt; a cheat, a liar and a bully. For me only Jenny Celery beats him as the most unpleasant ever contestant.
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The only reason Alex didn't take Laura into the boardroom was not because she had performed any better than those he did, but because he was scared of her - simple.
Of course he wasn't going to admit that on national TV.
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Alan Sugar thought she should have been bought back to the board room for the final 3 and as good as let it be known that she was skating on thin ice and then the Your Fired Programme picked that up as well, saying she was the one who got away I think, why?
She came up with a brilliant name for the all in one product, Blitz. She told Alex to go for lighter/brighter colours to which he ignored. She told him that it wouldn't look good having a kid in the advet as kids are not supposed to handle the product and she was offering to help on the TV advert after they where pretty much done with the radio advert! Sugar got it totally wrong, who's with me?..............
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The only reason Alex didn't take Laura into the boardroom was not because she had performed any better than those he did, but because he was scared of her - simple.
Of course he wasn't going to admit that on national TV. ![]() |
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If Alex HAD yielded and swapped Sandeesh for Laura, he would have got panned for changing his mind., He was strong to stand up to Sugar.
Laura will be PM next week. I hope she wins. |
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If Alex HAD yielded and swapped Sandeesh for Laura, he would have got panned for changing his mind., He was strong to stand up to Sugar.
Laura will be PM next week. I hope she wins. |
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Laura will be PM next week. I hope she wins.
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The PMs will almost certainly be Stuart and Sandeesh, neither of whom has done it before. Laura was PM for the Beach product task, and messed up horribly.
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Christopher hasn't been PM either.
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The PMs will almost certainly be Stuart and Sandeesh, neither of whom has done it before.
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