Time for tele-hubbies to beat Birmingham’s congestion problems

It is interesting to read of plans by Advantage West Midlands to create “tele-hubs” around the region to encourage major employers to allow workers to give up their commute into Birmingham in favour of an office closer to home.
The agency highlights numerous benefits - from tackling climate change by reducing unnecessary commuting, to allowing employees [...]

Playing it safe on The Apprentice

It all feels a bit too conservative for my liking.
Some might regard SirA’s decision to allow four of the remaining candidates on The Apprentice to go through to the final as a bold and imaginative move, but I can’t help thinking he’s playing it safe.
What it suggests to me is that there is no stand-out [...]

Does The Apprentice offer good PR?

We’ve arguably reached crunch time in The Apprentice.
Forget the final show when the £100,000-a-year wannabe hears the two words they’ve dreamt about: “You’re hired”.
Tonight’s show will go a long way to deciding who will win the glittering prize.
The interview stage has always proved quite decisive in exposing the fundamental flaws of the remaining candidates and [...]

Men and motors on The Apprentice

Is The Apprentice good for business?
It is a question some are asking again as this latest series goes down to the wire.
The answer really hasn’t changed since last year’s series. It wasn’t good for business then and given this year’s paucity of quality candidates it has arguably been even worse this year.
It is a bit [...]

Giving The Apprentice the Bullitt

It is becoming more apparent that the way in which each episode of The Apprentice is put together is having a significant impact on the attitude of viewers to remaining wannabes.
That is why I’ve been taking more of a dislike to Lee McQueen.
Each time his craggy face makes an appearance, or he snarls out something loud, boorish [...]

Raef’s hair to be crowned The Apprentice

This year’s crop of candidates on The Apprentice went to the wrong auditions.
They probably meant to try out for “Britain’s (Not) Got (Any) Talent” or “Make Me A Nancy” and got lost along the way.
Or, maybe they failed in those other auditions and turned to The Apprentice as a last resort?
This seems the most plausible [...]

The Apprentice - a reality check

Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, go on The Apprentice to try and get in through the back door.
And if they don’t succeed, at least they get their 15 seconds of reality TV fame to catapult themselves onto the motivational speaker circuit or maybe even another reality-style programme on a little-watched digital channel.
Sir Alan Sugar [...]

Fired by The Apprentice already

It hasn’t even started and I’m already sucked in to the latest series of The Apprentice.
I couldn’t help myself and grabbed a sneak preview of the latest gaggle of fawning wannabes who want to sit at Sir Alan Sugar’s right hand for a year.
I wasn’t disappointed by what I found, which is why I’m hooked.
There [...]

Digby’s gruff view of US business

The most belligerent Goat drafted into the Government by Gordon Brown has launched a scathing attack on US business.
Lord Digby Jones of Birmingham, trade and investment minister in the Government Of All Talents, has warned that the US is lagging years behind the rest of the business world.
He criticises the outdated belief that many within [...]