Posted on June 5th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Apprentice – The Final: Ricky gives them what Thor. Professor Michael Sandel*, in his excellent new book What Money Can’t Buy – The Moral Limits of Markets makes some very useful distinctions. Both professional Economist and Philosopher, Sandel remarks: “without quite realizing it we drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. […]
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Posted on May 12th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Apprentice (8) – Connor Sores of Art A few years ago the Australian medical community were pondering a problem: they were receiving a worrying number of complaints that significant numbers of hospital doctors, especially surgeons and most especially Consultants, were remote and detached; lacking in warmth and empathy. This will come […]
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Posted on May 5th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet BBC The Apprentice (7) – Smelling What’s Selling “You have sent a message to Britain” – Lord Sugar on his favourite task in The Apprentice. The achievement this praise recognised was that 10 bright young people had fetched up at a general wholesale warehouse, bought £150-worth of randomly selected merchandise and then flogged […]
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Posted on April 26th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Apprentice (6) – ‘Call-Me-Lord’ fires Miss Right There are three groups each week on the show: the two Apprentice teams and the Board ‘team’. As perhaps the most likeable bunch of Apprentices in this franchise so far are beginning to struggle towards something approximating teamwork in an intentionally divisive structure, the fiction of a Board […]
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Posted on April 19th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Apprentice (5) – Sterling Devalued Farce. By simple arithmetic, common sense, rudimentary business practice and principles from Barley’s own mouth –Sterling won and Phoenix lost. Big time. Sterling Revenue £5,000.00 – (Development fee from Fitness First) £2,970.00 – (22 sites @ £45/m for 3 months) Pure Gym £0 – Costs £7,970.00 – Net Profit. Phoenix Revenue […]
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Posted on April 16th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet BBC The Apprentice (4) – More Shabby Than Chic Best comment of the week: the woman at the car boot sale to the PITA (Pain in…) Apprentices “yes you can have it for a £ if you promise to go away.” All good deal-makers are good negotiators: not all good negotiators […]
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Posted on April 5th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Apprentice (3) – A Cause Without a Rebel That intelligent, successful young people check in their brains on entering The Apprentice and pick them up on the way out is so clear that we are no longer surprised by it. More disturbing is that most leave behind their pride, their self-respect and any […]
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Posted on March 29th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Apprentice (2) – Discovering the Bin I’ve never believed the claim that if you give an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters an infinite amount of time they will produce the works of Shakespeare. However measured against the likelihood of this year’s batch of apprentices coming up […]
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