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Tom didn't make the wrong decision but he didn't try to sell the paintings!! |
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He was a rubbish seller.
There were people interested in the big paintings and he showed zero enthusiasm for them. He highlighted the negatives... the size and price and the first guy he actually diverted his interest away from the expensive picture he noticed and liked to the smaller, cheaper pictures. And the second guy was practically asking to be convinced to buy and all Tom did was nod and look into space in a slightly defeated kinda way. |
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Taking risks that don't pay off becomes different though as you acquire a record of getting your strategic choices wrong. It moves from gambling - to being poor at making strategic choices.
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You could ask whether its relevant when Lord Sugar's role in the final partnership ought to be to guide strategic choices,
I expect Sugar's role is to provide the money and otherwise be a silent partner. He didn't give previous winners much personal attention and I doubt that will change now.Quote:
and argue that what was sold in this task depended on which sellers turned up, but in this case you end up sending someone home for an equally irrelevant tactical error while the person who gets the big picture wrong stays.
Again, I don't think he got the big picture wrong here.Quote:
With Tom you also have the rambling on about a subject he knows a little about to someone who knows a lot about it - that shows overconfidence and a lack of real understanding and appreciation of the subject. Waffling on about other artists showed a lack of tact, and the failure to get that artist demonstrated his problems dealing with people.
I agree he misjudged that. He knew he needed to impress the artist and show he understood the art well enough to sell it. His approach to that was plausible, but wrong.Gabrielle's mistakes with the corporate buyer were more basic. She didn't ask the right questions, didn't pick the right pictures, didn't look after the corporate on the night. Tom's bad luck that she managed to scrape a win by 3% anyway. |
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