Archive for the 'Business Principles' Category

What success means?

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Thursday, April 10th, 2008

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Success means a lot of things to a […]

Business Lessons from Celebrity Apprentice (Ep 13)

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Monday, March 31st, 2008

A two-hour live season finale of the Celebrity version of The Apprentice seems somewhat frivolous. It’s almost as if Trump is taking this seriously. Maybe this gives us a little more insight on how un-seriously Trump takes the regular seasons when someone will actually be working for him.
But the ratings must be good. On […]

Business Lessons from Celebrity Apprentice (Ep 12)

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Monday, March 24th, 2008

I loved the interviews as part of the narrowing down process in the first few seasons of The Apprentice. I think the last couple of seasons they moved away from that, but now they brought it back. Considering that none of these people will actually be working for Trump, this time it seems kind of […]

Business Lessons from Celebrity Apprentice (Ep 11)

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Monday, March 17th, 2008

In Last Thursday’s episode the teams had to build and sell a Quiznos sandwich. I think this episode really showed where the celebrity candidates are weakest, and that is in genuine business and marketing. They could not rely on their celebrity so everything came down to how to market a new sandwich to the average […]

Business Lessons from Celebrity Apprentice (Ep 9)

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Monday, March 3rd, 2008

The task for this episode of The Apprentice finally offered a true business related task that didn’t let the candidates rely on star power or the pocket books of their rich friends. This was a true marketing oriented task. I really wish they would do more of these. On with the lessons…
Business Lesson One: Your […]

Business Lessons from Celebrity Apprentice (Ep 8)

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Monday, February 25th, 2008

The QVC task is one that they’ve done before on The Apprentice, so this episode didn’t really offer up anything new. And since there were no real fireworks to speak of, this was a pretty bland episode. I’d love if The Apprentice would get back to tasks that require some unique business savvy, but there […]

Business Lessons from Celebrity Apprentice (Ep 7)

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Monday, February 18th, 2008

Thursday sported an episode of The Apprentice that was absolutely fantastic while at the same time pretty depressing. It was, in essence, classic reality show material. While that makes for good TV, you know it’s just not worthy of a show like The Apprentice. The behavior of Omarosa and Piers (mostly Omarosa) was so vile […]

Business Lessons from Celebrity Apprentice (Ep 6)

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Monday, February 11th, 2008

There are times in life when you see many parallels to yourself in all the things around you. Maybe you’re going through a rough spot or made some decisions that you regret, but whatever it is, wherever you go, you see that reflected in other people’s situations and actions. I found that to be true […]

Business Lessons from Celebrity Apprentice (ep. 5)

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Monday, February 4th, 2008

Thursday’s episode of The Apprentice was easily the best episode the show has ever aired. A joke turns into an opportunity, all gone awry by a bad project manager and a team mate that doesn’t know what he wants. This had all the makings of a scripted show or, well, real life! But let’s back […]