The Apprentice - What a joke!!

[ruskithebear]

Someone suprise me and tell me that Badger's company RBC is winning work.

There is no way she can be winning work from anyone serious about their own business. I can hear it now at the board/partners meetings

"Gents the company is going down the pan, we are bringing in the consultants to steady the buffs"
"great, who is it?"
"Some chancer from TV who came second in the apprentice and has started up her own consultancy"
"Great, do you think she will be able to restructure our complex Japanese bond financing or get us out of that £75k a day consequential loss contract that's about to be triggered due to the Russian ruble moving three points against the euro?"
"Erm, well, she is the badger, an Outstanding over achiever, inspired self, motivated deal closer"
"Yes but what has she done in the business world........"
"Erm, well, she is the badger, an Outs............."

Boards members vote on initiating suicide pledge and reach for the cyanide pills........

[Bagpuss]

Badger sold double glasing door to door, what better person to guide a multi-billion pound business.

Someone like Sir John Harvey Jones must be in awe.....

In 1945 the Navy sent him to the University of Cambridge, where he learned Russian in six months and qualified as a German and Russian interpreter. In 1952 he was awarded the MBE for his work in Naval Intelligence after a tour of duty commanding an 'E' boat, on what was loosely termed "fishery protection duties in the Baltic".

Jobs with ICI followed one another in quick succession. He himself suspected it was a desperate attempt by the company to find something he could do. In 1973 at the age of 49 he was given a seat on the main board. In April 1982 he became Chairman of ICI reputedly at the odds of 15-1 against, only the second split-career man and non-chemist to reach the top.

Certain that a troubled ICI lacked the time to make changes in an evolutionary way, but at the time uncertain of how to do things, he describes himself as a "high-risk Chairman".

A believer in informality, collective leadership and a high level of conflict, his sometimes strident public profile brought ICI to the notice of many millions. After only thirty months in the job, he had doubled the price of ICI shares and turned a loss into a one billion pound profit.