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First rule of the boardroom is to listen to Sir Alan,if, as a Project Manager, he is leading you to bring a candidate back in with you, bring them back in - it's your best hope for survival. Unfortunately Kevin failed to do this, and the death knell rang as he brought the invincible Clare and blameless Sara back to face the music.
Greeting cards - brilliant theme, genius task. The 'eco' market and cards, not really birds and a feather yet Jenny persuaded 'nice but dim' Kevin to go with it. More peculiarly, she then directed photos of naked men's bottoms to represent their theme.
A true example of letting your own preferences interfere with your business decisions, she deserved to end up in that boardroom and I have a feeling there might have been a double firing if she had. Given that we're at week 7 and there are still 10 candidates left - something needs to give.
Kevin was a weak project manager, his cards didn't sell like 'hot cakes' and he jumped on the bullying band wagon by pulling Sara back into the boardroom.
Michael Sophocles hardly excelled as a Project Manager but thankfully a combination Kevin's fumblings allowed and a reasonable theme carried him through. I still think he's a slippery one and he lacks substance; some believe he's in it for the celebrity, (including me) page 5 of the tabloids this week revealed his relationship with the lovely (if slightly deluded) Lindy as they enjoyed a discreet night out at one of London's hotspots!
This year's Apprentice is more like Lord of the Flies than a serious business programme, I was appalled to see the candidates' reaction to Sara's return to the house. I know that the boardroom is tough and to come back to that kind of reaction is hideous; we're really seeing their true colours shine through and thankfully Raef, ever the gentleman, intervened to save Sara her tears. Funnily, nobody mentioned that Sir Alan had wanted Jenny to be in the boardroom....
I'm foregoing pre-Flora Day spingos tonight in order to watch the show, I hope it's a good one!
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In the same way that the team struggled over the placing of an apostrophe in the word Singles, I’m struggling with your sub title, Star of the Apprentice, perhaps Starred in the Apprentice would be a little less overindulgent in ones attempt at fame.
I must defend Naomi here as the sub title for her blog was made by the thisiscornwall team - there was no suggestion from Naomi that she wanted to be called a "star".
However, for many people in Cornwall - especially her home town of Helston - she WAS the Star of last year's Apprentice.
Few local people get the chance to show their business skills and represent their home town.
Naomi did this and made her family, friends and supporters in Helston proud.
Thanks Alan and thank you Gareth! Lovely to see everyone at Flora Day. Can we change the title?!
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