Rob at BusinssPunding writes the following about The Apprentice:
I'm not sure the tasks they are doing are a good measure of business acumen. There are too many variables that may affect the outcome that the candidates cannot control. For instance, when they have a restaurant challenge or a apartment/motel remodeling competition and the final numbers are close, that doesn't mean one group did a better job.
Well I would certainly never hire an executive based on a contest like this. Nor would anyone. The primary purpse of the contest is to provide entertaining television.
But to give the contest a little credit, no matter which team wins or loses, someone gets fired. Each week, Donald Trump gets to fire a weak candidate until only strong candidates are left. So it doesn't really matter if the better team loses, it still helps Trump to narrow down the field.
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