Reply to: Gordo forms panel of business gurus

[Old Greg]

they also do well in boat races

Do they have boat races for blind rowers?

[DodgyAgent]

You only hire them with strong stomachs, then?

they also do well in boat races

[Old Greg]

Dont forget I get to shaft my prossies for nothing

You only hire them with strong stomachs, then?

[DodgyAgent]

I love it when you talk dirty.

Dont forget I get to shaft my prossies for nothing

[Old Greg]

or a prossie

I love it when you talk dirty.

[DodgyAgent]

Not everyone's a pimp

or a prossie

[Old Greg]

No one is doing this for altruistic purposes, and nor would anyone else.

Not everyone's a pimp

[DodgyAgent]

Sugar is a dinosaur who makes most of his money through investments, not production. His abrasive style of management (note the word management, he's certainly no leader) gives the wrong message about how to be an effective boss. He is a thoroughly unlikeable character. Yet, if his approach results in making money and screwing others, and you think that is the be all and end all of it, far from me to criticise.

Richard Branson and Digby Jones are the types of people modern managers should aspire to.

I am no lover of Alan Sugar, but what he does works whether you like it or not. I particularly despise his sucking up to Labour. But if you think about it, people like him are driven by a desire to become respected by the elite of society. That is what they use their money for. He is indeed everything that you say he is, but at least what you see is what you get.

Digby Jones who I happen to know is a ruthless grammar school priviliged middle class brown noser who loves himself.

And I am surprised that you are taken in by that revolting two faced groper Branson.

[swamp]

Amstrad enjoyed 25% share of European home computer market at one point. They then threw it away by not investing in R&D. Great example shown there by Sir Alan Sugar...

[Kyajae]

You may not like Sugar but there is a brutal straightforward honesty about how he looks at business. Brown could easily have picked some corporate brownnoser with a silver spoon education. Give me a self made man like Sugar any day.

Sugar is a dinosaur who makes most of his money through investments, not production. His abrasive style of management (note the word management, he's certainly no leader) gives the wrong message about how to be an effective boss. He is a thoroughly unlikeable character. Yet, if his approach results in making money and screwing others, and you think that is the be all and end all of it, far from me to criticise.

Richard Branson and Digby Jones are the types of people modern managers should aspire to.

[DodgyAgent]

...who sold naff hi-fi in the '80s and computers to the education sector which are apparently unreliable. Hmmm.

Self-made is fine: What about Richard Branson? Now there's someone who is not just thinking "Flog it for cost + x% or you're fired".

Dixons sold them and they went wrong yet these people still made money!!
Had they got some Etonian city slicker with a silver spoon in his mouth you would have been happier?

As for the cynics amongst you, you are absolutely right. No one is doing this for altruistic purposes, and nor would anyone else.

[lilelvis2000]

You may not like Sugar but there is a brutal straightforward honesty about how he looks at business. Brown could easily have picked some corporate brownnoser with a silver spoon education. Give me a self made man like Sugar any day.

The fact he is a strong Labour supporter and even appeared in a campaign video the previous election has nothing at all to do with?

[Swamp Thing]

You may not like Sugar but there is a brutal straightforward honesty about how he looks at business. Brown could easily have picked some corporate brownnoser with a silver spoon education. Give me a self made man like Sugar any day.

...who sold naff hi-fi in the '80s and computers to the education sector which are apparently unreliable. Hmmm.

Self-made is fine: What about Richard Branson? Now there's someone who is not just thinking "Flog it for cost + x% or you're fired".

[andy]

maybe sugar will finally sell his wierd email telephone combos to government

[The Lone Gunman]

Most of these guys have got where they are by being ruthless.
They play hard ball and most have taken no prisoners when it comes to competition.
What makes Gordo think they will not use this opportunity to that end?

Possibility: Maybe Gordo know which way the wind blows and is lining himself up for a coupel of cushy directorships post PM.
Possibly he i sjust looking for someone who can bay him a decent lunch or will get him access to places his title wont.