Junior Apprentice

Having had my nose firmly stuck in some knotty cases over the last few months the existence of Junior Apprentice had somehow passed me by.  Having finally caught an episode I am sad to have missed the earlier ones.

All the great ingredients of the main series are there - the over-confidence / arrogance, the backstabbing and the spectacular failures - just in a younger package.  Some business commentators have been very snooty about the educational pretensions of the show - but who cares!  This is entertainment but at the same time it is a microcosm of what goes on and what goes wrong in teams and boardrooms around the country.

I shall not be missing any of the future episodes.

Sir Alan - you are hired!

Another series of the Apprentice ends with two surprising results.  First, Kate (”Miss Perfect”) fails to bag the job and second, Sir Alan is announced as Gordon Brown’s new “Enterprise Tsar”.

Starting with the Apprentice itself - this series did not disappoint with its boardroom disputes.

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Keeping your head below the parapet

Another classic boardroom brawl in the Apprentice with contrasting fortunes for Ben and Philip.

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The Apprentice in the boardroom

As the latest series of The Apprentice gathers pace with an epic boardroom encounter involving Ben, Debra and the unfortunate Noorul, what does this series tell us about boardroom disputes.

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