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The Apprentice = Dragon's Den with tasks
What's the point in the tasks, if the person who has failed on every level doesn't get fired, but the person's idea that Sugar has no interest in does.
This has happened a number of times now since they started the new concept, it makes the episodes completely pointless. |
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What's the point in the tasks, if the person who has failed on every level doesn't get fired, but the person's idea that Sugar has no interest in does.
This has happened a number of times now since they started the new concept, it makes the episodes completely pointless. |
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The tasks are there to show Lord Sugar the way that the candidates work. A lot of the time, an investor invests in a person just as much as they do in an idea. They need to do well in the tasks to even get the chance to pitch their idea to Lord Sugar. Like Jaz, for example; I thought her business idea was good, Lord Sugar may well have liked it, but at the end of the day, she screwed up the task and had to go.
No matter how good a business idea is, an investor will think very hard before putting money into someone they dislike or don't feel an affinity for. Business is about numbers a lot of the time, but it's also about people and relationships. As I've noted before, when investments or acquisitions fail it's often less about the strategy/plan being wrong and more about the relationships between key people being wrong. |
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I made this point a week ago
OP is correct. But the show would be nowhere without the tasks. Bring it back to a job as the reward. |
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I made this point a week ago
OP is correct. But the show would be nowhere without the tasks. Bring it back to a job as the reward. |
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A job in one of his companies. As we discussed he doesn't have to necessarily 'be there' for one of them to work for Amstrad.
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A job in one of his companies. As we discussed he doesn't have to necessarily 'be there' for one of them to work for Amstrad.
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I don't think that Lord Sugar would ever go back to doing that - and not because of the Stella thing, because as we have discussed before, the change of prize was announced before Stella started working there. I think he was just bored with taking on apprentices - he's semi-retired, he still wants to help people in business but in a less hands-on sort of way. If they wanted to change it back to a job, they'd have to change the person running it, I think.
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Which I don't think would ever happen. Lord Sugar has become the face of The Apprentice UK in such a way that I don't think they would be able to do as good a job with some one else. As far as I'm concerned the future of The Apprentice in the UK lives and dies with Lord Sugar.
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I don't think anyone else could do a better job. You have to be irascible, you have to be surly, and you have to had a lifetime in the business world. I'm sure there are many, but not as high profile
How about the prick who used to own Crystal Palace? Bit younger but he'd be pretty controversial. 'nice tits love, you're hired' |
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Personally I think that Karren Brady would do a very good job - but I don't think she'd ever go for it. I remember her saying in an interview that she, Nick and Lord Sugar are a team, and if he ever goes, they're going with him.
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I don't think anyone else could do a better job. You have to be irascible, you have to be surly, and you have to had a lifetime in the business world. I'm sure there are many, but not as high profile
How about the prick who used to own Crystal Palace? Bit younger but he'd be pretty controversial. 'nice tits love, you're hired' |
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Peter Jones for Apprentice-meister.
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I think there's only one man who could do the job and that's Duncan Bannatyne, he has a similar history of rags to riches that Sugar had, he has shown that he has 2 sides to him from ruthless to a big softy as well.
I think the change is needed as I don't think Sugar actually cares about The Apprentice anymore and the new format is a mess. |
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I think the change is needed as I don't think Sugar actually cares about The Apprentice anymore and the new format is a mess.
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