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What a show this is going to be!

I thought this week’s task was quite easy. Here is some fish, identify it, price it and sell it. You don’t have to source or buy it. Can it get simpler than that?

The problem they faced was there was no time for bonding beforehand.

Just ‘off you go and sell’.

We have two bunches of strangers with no-one jumping at the bit to be the leaders but all wanting to be talking, shouting and in front of the camera.

We ended up with sixteen very keen show-offs with no strategy and no plan and the outcome – a complete shambles – just as Sir Alan said.

The girls were slightly better than the boys.

I thought Claire (girls Team leader) made the best decision of the day, albeit far too late. She told her team “Let’s correct and understand the prices before we sell any more” Good decision, but why not do that at the beginning. I believe Claire gained respect because when she spoke the girls did listen.

Why the ‘boys’ took 4 hours before deciding upon a pitch I do not know.

I thought Alex (boys team Leader) had delegated well but he had no control mechanisms in place. It was just panic, panic and more panic. He could have gathered the majority of his team together at certain times throughout the day just for 10 minutes and discuss the good points and what needs changing. Simple!

A question for you. How many candidates does it take to agree and sell fish to a solicitors office at a 1/3 of the recommended price?

Six. That’s right six boys. Why not split up and sell the fish to restaurants. That’s what the girls did.

“F” for Fired

Then we had the boardroom session at the end when someone is fired.

Nicholas de Lacy-Brown was fired and rightly so. He is a Barrister and I was expecting him to defend himself extremely well and get his point across.

Well he didn’t and he started off talking about ‘Educated vs. Uneducated’ and he assumed certain individuals were uneducated due to their accents.

All in front of the most successful cockney businessperson around – Sir Alan Sugar. Nicholas couldn’t have dug a bigger hole if he tried.

It isn’t about accents and it isn’t about academic education. It’s about attitude, confidence, drive and applying yourself in business and the quicker Nicholas and a few of the ‘princes’ in this years show understand that, the more chance of them being successful in this world.

Cor Blimey Luv A Duck

I would rather have a ‘cor blimey’, hard-working, confident person working for me rather than someone who can just talk a good show.

All talk and no substance

Now I can’t finish without commenting on Raef and remember it is my opinion and observation based on the first edited TV show.

All talk and no substance. In fact, most of what he says doesn’t make sense anyway. He will talk his way though the first few weeks, do as little as possible and then get fired.

You can tell who didn’t impress me, can’t you?

I think Sir Alan has already made his mind up on Raef – he would never employ him. Only my opinion but let’s see.

No one impressed me from the first show but I am already looking forward to next weeks.

Who impressed you?

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