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Lessons From the Apprentice
Lessons From the Apprentice – Design a New Gadget
This weeks task on the Apprentice was to design and pitch a new household gadget. Lord Sugar said that the success of the task would be very much down to the concept as the team who secured the most orders from two major retailers would win. The boys led by Azhar decided to focus on..
read more →Lessons From the Apprentice – Print It and Sell It
So on the day the latest budget was announced, the new series of the BBC’s Apprentice starts. Lord Alan Sugar has 12 new contestants competing for an investment in starting a new business, having him as a business partner. I can’t help but think – New Series, Same Lessons? Have these people not seen the..
read more →Lessons from the Apprentice Returns This Evening
It’s back, the new series of the Apprentice starts this evening, and as we did in the last series we will be reviewing the lessons that we can learn the approaches that the contestants take during their tasks. Look out for our weekly posts by our Managing Director David Lumley as he gives his take..
read more →Business and Leadership Lessons From the Apprentice – The Interviews
So this years series of the Apprentice is now over and the winner announced, and in order to get to the point we are now the candidates have been through the interview stage. In this stage the candidates are grilled by 4 business professionals who will scrutinise their CV’s and business plans, and in most..
read more →Business and Leadership Lessons From the Apprentice – Fast Food
A short update this week on Business and Leadership Lessons From the Apprentice, simply because many of the mistakes and lessons are the same as previous episodes; however, there are some key lessons to draw from this weeks episode. This week the teams were tasked with putting together a fast food restaurant. They would be..
read more →Business and Leadership Lessons From the Apprentice – Biscuits
This week the teams were tasked with bringing another new product to market, this time biscuits, and it was clear that lessons from previous tasks had still not been learnt. The teams were mixed again this week with Zoe taking charge of Venture and Helen Logic. Half of the teams were sent to a development..
read more →Business and Leadership Lessons from the Apprentice – Selling in France
This weeks task saw the team picking British products and selling them to French retailers. After a re-jig of the teams, Lord Sugar placed Tom in charge of Logic and Susan put herself forward to be in charge of Venture. First job of the day was to split the teams and send one half to..
read more →Business and Leadership Lessons From the Apprentice – Freemiums
In this weeks task the teams were asked to produce a free premium magazine and sell advertising space in them. These free magazines that have come to be knows as Freemiums are a massive business due the volume that are given away and make money from the advertising space that is available. It was the..
read more →Leadership and Business Lessons From the Apprentice – Rubbish
This weeks task was all about rubbish! More specifically it was about Logistics, Planning and knowing the value of time and product. The task was to collect rubbish and make a profit from it. Trying to charge more collection than it would to dump as well as looking out for valuable product that could be..
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