Harry and Zara for me too. These two have the ability to listen and get the job done.
The others are coming across as too impatient but to fair to them they are still learning about life and are gaining valuable experience.
I am quite enjoying the show. Good luck to all the kids.

I don't find Harry M nor Zara particularly great candidates.

Both might be pretty good, yes, but the problem is they come across as self-absorbed, snobby and pretty much arrogant. You can be as fantastic as you want but if that's how you come across to others, it's not going to work very well for you. I find Zara and Harry patronising as well.

Agree, They are both very capable and will probably be sucessful running their own businesses in the future but both would struggle as employees - in my opiniion they would both be the cause of friction and very resistant to being managed.

What I disliked about Harry though, far more than his lack of team playing in the task, was how when he returned to the house he made it clear that LS had wanted to get rid of one of the two that escaped the boardroom. This was not necessary and was meant to cause upset.

Harry M is great! He's an independent type of person. He's like a cat. In pussycat mode, he's ambitious, refined, and tactful. However, if you rub his fur the wrong way, he becomes complicated, self-centered and terminally condescending. I like him a lot as I understand him.

The rest of the candidates are too insecure to be independent like Harry M. (unless Zara who is more or less like Harry M. but not quite the same). Thus, the rest of the candidates play the "team-playing" card. Someone like Harry M often does not need a team to support him.

Very much to their advantage under the new 'investment in a business' format...


He's not the first to do this. Its a silly thing to do though - that information could be useful to someone later looking for a dead cert 'fall guy' to take into the boardroom. A true 'player' would keep the information for their own use.

In the boardroom on Monday, Harry M looked like the older child in the Sound of Music - both for his looks and what he was wearing.

My money would him being on the Tory front bench, probably after a career as a lawyer.

Whilst he's irritating and insufferable most of the time, I'm sure he'll do very well for himself in life.

Yes, I think you're right. Bet he'll drive a Jaaag too.

lol I wasn't quite sure what he did wrong when I first watched it.

I also thought it was funny when the losing team went back out of the boardroom to sit on the chairs and there was a huge gap between Harry M and the others. He suddenly realized it and then carefully moved to sit closer to them.

Hannah had more logic than that - but it was the wrong logic. Zara had made what seemed the most obvious tactical mistake .Actually the big strategic error was pricing which Zara and called right - but Hannah was responsible for that one, so couldn't go there, even if she recognised it. Hannah also repeatedly went back to the theme of wanting team players who would work in her team. Harry was disruptive, and Zara didn't follow instructions, so, in that sense, they were the ones to pick .She had been complimented on running the team well, and probably did enough to survive against weaker opposition in the boardroom, so from her viewpoint the non team players were the ones to take in.

The problem is where she arrived at fitted the teamwork logic, but didn't ask who had made the smart business calls, or showed some abilities, or contributed most of the profits or who was articulate enough to beat her easily in a boardroom argument..

To be fair though, she did spot that Harry had past form which might have gone against him and she may not have seen enough of some people like Lewis in ineffective action to argue against him - even if liking him wasn't an issue. She might have wondered if she ahd enough ammunition on anyone else even if she had identified who looked weaker and more likely to be fired.

The others feel threatened by him as his is clearly the most creative and entrepreneurial person on the show.

I don't think the others are jealous or feel threatened. It's Harry who clearly thinks he's better than them ("if you'd listened to me we would have won" x 10,000), not the others. If someone is rude, abrupt and negative about anything you will switch off and not listen to them even when they are talking sense, which is exactly what is happening. He is smug and has no tact or diplomacy. He makes good TV but he won't win, Lord Sugar does not like people that alienate everyone around them and he has already given Harry warnings two weeks in a row.

TBH I have'nt seen Harry alienate anyone around him.....

They all dislike him, how has he not alienated them?

If one person doesn't like you, it could well be their problem and not yours. If a whole group of people don't like you, it's very unlikely that every single one of them is at fault and not your own behaviour.

Totally agree.

On what I have seen on the telly, give me Harry M and Zara as employees over the others any day. Don't mistake his accent and their confidence as arrogance - something too often done in this country. Sad, as it inevitably brings the talented down and produces alot of mediocrity. They may make mistakes, they don't always get it right but they go for it with a lot of energy, a good dose of commonsense (for their age) and they aren't afraid to put themselves out and take risks. Funny, they also seem to be the only ones who can do maths.. lol

Harry M for PM!

You might be right that he did it to cause upset, I don't know. I thought i was a good tactic. He was letting the group know that bringing him into the boardroom for personal reasons was a mistake and LS wasn't going to buy it.

The losing PM this week certainly got the message and brought the right people in. LS was pleased about that and it probably helped save her @rse.

I like Zara. It's too easy to see what a prick Harry M. will continue to be when he grows up.