The Apprentice is one of my favourite television programmes right now. In terms of the participants they had on the show and their own business proposals, some claim that the initial seasons of The Apprentice were extremely realistic, educational, and professional, but I don’t really recall that ever being the case.
I recall that they had contestants that were obviously invited onto the show in order to add drama and purposeful blunders even in the first season. In order to promote the show, attract more viewers, and get people to laugh at the idiot who said and did stupid things, they set out to produce horrible or embarrassing events.
The Apprentice was never intended to produce the next great entrepreneur or to raise money for this incredible and unique product. The producers and host of the event are aware that the winner will never pick up the cash award, but the actual sum will be made up of the advertising revenue the show is able to secure.
When it looks like the same kind of character is featured in each season, you can easily see that the show follows a formula. The one utter moron who appears to believe they are the new Del-boy is always my favourite of these characters. There is always someone who believes they can sell water to the ocean, and after three episodes, they expose themselves to the whole country. My favourite is when the businessman who believes he is God’s gift to the industry consistently gets the price incorrect or manages to undersell a good they believe they can easily sell. It’s always exciting to see them appear to be entirely caught up in their own deception.
In my opinion, the first three episodes reveal who the best businesswoman or businessman is. You would typically find them to be quiet and to perform consistently, if not exceptionally. By the sixth or seventh episode, they are typically the one who has a brilliant idea or succeeds in finishing a project that they ought to be losing. Every season has a favourite who the country believes will win or, at the very least, believes is their team’s strongest player.
The greatest applicants, in my opinion, are also able to identify the team members’ or a particular project’s flaws. They also frequently have a product or service that, while obviously not going to be a big hit in the real world, usually has a USP that makes it stand out from the competition.
Finally, I’ll just say that a lot of what occurs in The Apprentice is obviously staged to appear a certain way. Especially around the age of 25 to 30, I find it incomprehensible that they can find 16 to 18 people who are continuously fighting and have absolute knob heads. It’s extremely uncommon to work a job where the entire team inside a particular department or sector manages to quarrel with one another over every single detail of a good or service.
With the Apprentice, however, they always seem to be able to locate these individuals that have opposing personalities and consistently disagree.
Nevertheless, thanks for reading today’s blog. I hope you’ll be able to read some of my previous entries and the ones I’ll be writing in the future.