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Research Adviser. Specialises in employee relations and engagement. Also has interests in corporate social responsibility, equality and diversity, leadership and organisational development
John McGurk
Coaching, public policy, apprenticeship, learning and skills councils, skills shortages
Mark Beatson
Chief Economist. Leads on CIPD’s labour market analysis and commentary as well as leading thinking and influencing policy making across the whole spectrum of people management and workplace issues.
Peter Cheese
Richard Goff
Reward Blogger
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Senior researcher (OD Insight and Practice). He is responsible for research on the psychological contract, primarily on the construction of organisational fairness and its impact of managing change and organisational cultures.
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2013 (36)
May (37)
(B)end it like Beckham? The best rewards are yet to come...
Labour market statistics, May 2013: Real earnings travel back in time - and are now no higher than a decade ago
New old values for corporate governance
London outperforms the UK as a location for job creation
HRD 2013 - Highlights from the bloggers
April (31)
Where ever I lay my hat (that’s my home office)
Power of 3 - Big Data's been watching you: your hired!
Panda-ing to the Media - Law On Tour, Spring 2013
Real time information: payroll compliance or a reward opportunity?
No new initiatives, just better implementation of the programmes we know
March (33)
Crazy Little Thing Called Law - Law On Tour, Spring 2013
Budget 2013 confirms that the economic recovery will be slow ... but what about jobs?
Regulate to Accumulate?
More pay regulation – Doh!
February (25)
The way we do things here
Labour market statistics, February 2013: A tale of three generations
Invest in your people and the CIPD’s reward management survey!
Does work make us happy?
P3 - Beating Barleycorn with the help of Mr Will Power
Executive labour markets – the emerging markets story
Communicating and engaging on our strategic direction
January (32)
Where next for Employee Support Services?
The psychology of numbers: Why is 100 better than 101?
New directions for CIPD, new opportunities for the profession
Labour Market Statistics, January 2013: Strong growth in the jobs market but youth unemployment goes up
Reward metrics based on business outcomes - an opportunity for HR
Are traineeships a way to bridge the Learning to Work gap? The devil is in the detail.
Human Capital - MI reporting
Mixing work and religion
Will 2013 be another year when the labour market confounds expectations?
Building our Workplace Communities
Young People: We Need You!
Does reward feature on your new year’s resolution list?
What’s going to happen in 2013?
HRD 2013 - How sticky is your L&D?
2013 – a crowd pleasing year?
2012 (150)
December (27)
I'm a trainer not flippin' Paul Daniels!
Would we last 5 minutes in learning & development if we worked for Roman Abramovich?
P3 - A whole new meaning to “computer says no” (New Scientist 8 Dec 2012)
Down in the data room at midnight
P3 - Bargaining with the new Blackbeards (Economist 1 December 2012)
P3 - Temporary In-Santa-ty?
Lost your job? ‘Tis the season to find a new one
Loud and clear : Employers to take the lead
Power of 3 - How the pain of rejection can be more than poetic (New Scientist 1 Dec 2012)
Employee ownership for all?
Power of 3 - Labour economics: How Danish dads rake in more dough when mum delivers (Economist 24 Nov 2012)
November (48)
Power of 3 - Islands of satisfaction and unhappy Valleys
Employee Engagement: re-stating the bleeding obvious
What price fair pay?
Power of 3 - Why counting crows could be a reality as much as a rock band
An Engaging Journey
I want to tell you a story
This year's conference - my view
The Devil is in the detail: Understanding data
ACE 2012 - Innovation and HR
ACE 2012 - The focus of HR isn't to be commercial: Day Three of #CIPD12
ACE 2012 - Change Required for HR, Recruitment & People Leadership
ACE 2012 - The Youth Unemployment Challenge: Day Two of #CIPD12
ACE 2012 - Making the Case for Learning and Development Investment
ACE 2012 - Does Employment Protection Encourage Innovation?
We're not all doomed!
ACE 2012 - Unlocking the Potential of Our Future Workforce
ACE 2012 - Innovation versus process: Day One of #CIPD12
ACE 2012 - Learning from Values-led Leaders
ACE 2012 - Trades Unions Can Be Allies Not Adversaries
ACE 2012 - #CIPD12 Links & Stuff From My Session
What’s the point of HR?
Allowing Community back into our workplaces
ACE 2012 - The Carnival of HR blogging rolls into town
HR on the board? I’m bored
Power of 3 - China goes doolally for pigeon racing
October (33)
Power of 3 - Could we be missing a trick and a treat by not learning the moneyball lesson?
Power of 3 - Why driving might run out of road
Tell Me Why We’re Here Again?
A Sustainable Proposition
Thoughts on the CIPD - a framework for change
ACE 2012 - A Digital Preview
The Touring Tray Juggler - Law On Tour, Autumn 2012
Differentiating top reward professionals
Calm down dear
Perfect storms and social revolution – the pension’s story
Power of 3 - Computer Says Doh!
Power of 3 - Machine Motty?
Planes, Trains and Automobiles - Law on Tour, Autumn 2012
The Narrative of Reward
Is trading employee rights for share ownership really a way forwards?
We’re out?
Power of 3 - Feel the Burn in Your Brain
Power of 3 - Why learning should be childs play
September (27)
Power of 3 - Cars Not Such a Driver
Power of 3 - Walls of the Mind
UK Productivity Stats – Are we really falling behind?
Power of 3 - Orchestrating Leadership Economist
A week in the life of a conspiracy theorist - Law on Tour, Autumn 2012
Market data and unrealistic expectations
Power of 3 - Deep fried mars bars. The evidence.
Power of 3 - Food for Forgetting?
Power of 3 - The Glass is Half Full
Public Sector Pay Policy – Dead Man Walking?
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date
Can you hear me at the back? - Law on Tour, Autumn 2012
August (37)
You Can’t Trust People To Do Their Jobs – That’s Not What They’re Here For
Performance Management Conference - Performance, Price and the Premier League
HR should not be a passive spectator
4G Superfast Broadband is coming your way
Power of 3 - Psychometrics of life and death: Why evidence base really matters
Power of 3 -The science of super memory
The age of flexible benefits?
Power of 3 - Good Teachers Matter: Do the Maths!
Don't We Have a Policy For That?
Power of 3 - Free Will or Readiness Potential? You (Still) Decide
Power of 3 - Gone Fishing or Sustainable Scampi: Your Choice!
ACE 2012 - Building #OurGreatestCompany
Power of 3 - Siri: More Humble Innovation less Apple Puff
Power of 3 - Even Bolt has his Limits!
Power of 3 - Soft Skills, Stop the Soft soap: They are Skills Pure and Simple
Power of 3 - The Dismal Distribution Sparked by Savings!
Reward blog with a difference - Managing Change
Inspire a generation in to work
Power of 3 - Coaching needs some Therapy!
An Olympians perspective on HR and London 2012
Power of 3 - The Neuroscience of Empathy
July (27)
What makes bronze such an amazing achievement?
Power of 3 - Hotter than July? Extreme weather; Random or Pattern?
Remembering Jackie – and building on her legacy
When the magic bullets starts flying…
Peter Cheese - An Introduction
Talking About My Generation
Blancmange: A Reason for Living
Pay Up
Dangerous engagement
June (26)
Are we doing what it says on the tin?
What if the future isn’t blancmange-shaped?
Reward management, data and information - by Clive Wright, Hyperion HR Ltd
Reward Transparency – Are We Keeping People in the Dark? By Mark Goodlake, Astellas
Apprentice 2012 - The Final: Wricky Wrestles the Wonga and Tom, Jade and Nick Submit
Get On Board the Good Ship Employment Law
May (37)
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 11: Chocolate Heaven Makes Business Mess and Well-groomed Plodders Shine
Should Employment Law Support Good Practice?
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 10: Jades deal driving and nothing from Tring mark Stephen’s Coupon
Spring is over – Autumn next?
A Blancmange for the Digital Age
Who the hell are our customers, anyway?
CIPD Reward Conference 2012 – A review by John Beadle
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 9: Poor quality fizz and not enough sparkle knocks cheesy Jenna off the throne
Now is the spring of our discontent…or is it? by Leigh Harrison – a FTSE 100 group reward director
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 8: Pure Evil, Pure Ego and Laura Sells herself Short
A Separate Yorkshire? By Glen Jenkins, CIPD Reward Examiner
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 7: The only way is assets and you can't fake strategy
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 6: Tartan up the favourites to win hearts and minds
Roy Hodgson: Character Trumps Charisma
Chimpanzees and TUPE
April (31)
Why Have You Recruited This Deranged Fop?
Paying for performance - defining your terms and managing unintended consequences. By Katharine Turner, CIPD VP Reward
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 5: Phoenix’s retro-cheek leads to Duane being fitted up
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 4: Left Holding the Junk and coming up against a Brick Lane led to Jane’s Downfall
Being values driven is being commercial. By Tony Hatton-Gore, Reward and HR Consulting
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 3: Don’t make a pickle of production and have the sauce to sell
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 2: Bin here Before, Bromanagement breakdown and Dumped by the Numbers
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 1: Blank Goods. Blank Looks and Billyana pays the Price
March (33)
Corporate pay disclosure: The breakfast cereal debate. By Ian Davidson, Compensation and Benefits Specialist.
Leadership As Strong As Chilli Peppers
So It Begins! - Law on Tour, Spring 2012
The Terms they are a Changin’. By Colin Miller, Kent County Council
A Pot of Shrimps Could Lead People Better Than That Lot
Are you ready for 2012? By Charles Cotton, CIPD Reward and Performance Adviser
Exactly how global are we, here in Acton?
Why have a bonus scheme? by Sylvia Doyle, Reward First People Consulting & Partner, Reward Consulting Partners LLP
I Think You Could Be As Mad As A Box of Jam
February (25)
Is the future of the Reward profession secure? By Ray Naylor, GDF SUEZ
Decisions…
HRD 2012 - Promoting Informal Learning through the ‘Bird Feeder’ Approach
Money – that’s all I want. By Alan Measures, Moog
Meet Annie James
Passing through the eye of a needle. Part 2. Ian Davidson, Group Head of Reward, Aspen
Passing through the eye of a needle. Part 1. Ian Davidson, Group Head of Reward, Aspen
Meet Mark Temple
January (32)
Meet Robin Mayhew
Asian takeaway. By Deborah Moon, HR Consultant
An interesting alternative on executive pay. By Clive Wright, Hyperion HR Ltd
The Great CEO Hunt Begins
Bad attitude? By Mark Goodlake, Astellas
CEOs you can cut out and keep
Is it time to talk about value rather than reward? Angela Baron, CIPD
New Year, New Everything…
2011 (116)
December (27)
New Horizons
Social media and reward communication. by Adam Sorensen, Worldatwork
You’re Fired
You’re In My Sights, Sally Gulliver
The mantra has changed. By Glen Jenkins, CIPD reward examiner
The Trouble with Blenkinsop by Bingleby, the pot plant in HR
Roger Stephens and his Astonishing Findings
November (48)
The Reward Balancing Act by Tony Hatton-Gore of Rewardhr Ltd
Social Media in the Workplace and Employee Communication by Doug Shaw
Young Apprentice: Don't Sweat the Concept or you could be Canned
Nice To Meet You! I’m Here To Undermine You!
Blogging for HR by Neil Morrison, HR Director at Random House
10 Social Media Policy & Guidelines Documents
Reward and clear thinking. By Katharine Turner, Towers Watson
Why Are You Still Here?
Young Apprentice 4: Know your Customer, follow your Leader and Don't be Taken in by the "Trade"
Reward Strategy – Another Victim of the Labour Market? By Mark Childs, Total Reward Group
Why Would an HR Person Want To Be on Twitter? By Alison Chisnell, Group HR Director of Informa Business Information
Why Are You Here?
Perhaps Completely Giving Up is your Best Strategy?
Young Apprentice 2: Necessity is the Mother of Innovation and Teamwork
October (33)
The Campaign for Real Leadership
Young Apprentice 2011 Episode 1: Ice cream wars. Soft Skills Scoop Hard Sell
Forward to the Past by Colin Miller, Kent County Council
Cracking the Leadership Code
The proof of the pudding... by Sylvia Doyle, Reward First People Consulting
September (27)
It’s Like Leadership, Only More So
Pensions, 2012 and mentoring. By Charles Cotton, CIPD Public Policy Adviser - Reward
It’s A Leadership Thang
A totally rewarded and engaged workforce? By Duncan Brown, Aon Hewitt
People Are Our Most Impotent Asset
Social Media: security risk vs. positive impacts? by Katy Tuck
Everyone Thinks We Are In Fact Idiots
What can I say? by Alan Measures, Moog
Sally Gulliver Has Left The Building
August (37)
Dark days ahead. By Deborah Moon, HR Consultant
Can I Ask, What is The Right Question?
Why best practice isn’t best. By Clive Wright, Director Hyperion HR Ltd
Thinking on the Run: 23.08.11
The Campaign for Even More Meetings
Tortured by the Talent
Sally Gulliver is Out of the Office
July (27)
Your Business Is My Business
Has the time for telework come – and gone? By Adam Sorensen
A change is as good as a rest by Leigh Harrison, Head of Executive Reward, J Sainsbury plc
Throwing Custard Pies of Feedback
Apprentice Final: You have to make stuff to make it, but you also need cheek which is why stubbly Tom got the nod.
Cu-cu-cu-cultural change
Apprentice 5: Episode 11: Remember! You don’t need to know your Christopher’s from your Caracas: Just don’t mash - up the margin or you’ll end up fired.
Future Rewards on HMS Great Britain. Glen Jenkins, CIPD reward examiner
Santa Claus is for life, not just for Christmas
Apprentice 10: Smell the sell and make the margin or you'll get turned over in the boardroom
What compensation and benefits professionals need to excel at. Katharine Turner, CIPD VP Reward and Performance
Mission Statement Impossible
June (26)
Apprentice 7: Think outside the tin, always account for taste and don’t crumble under pressure.
Apprentice 5: Episode 8: No Harmony from Melody but Helen Shows the Way to Team Success
MENA reward challenges, by Charles Cotton
Are any of you good enough to be working here?
Is Career Average Greek Debt Restructuring in Slow Motion? By Mark Childs. Total Reward Solutions
The Plan to Improve the Company Overnight
Apprentice 5: Episode 7: Stop trying to be Hip because Porn sells and Engineers can’t do the Business
From economy to effectiveness. By Charles Cotton, CIPD Performance and Reward Adviser
Inching Pebbles of Culture Change up the Corporate Mountain
Apprentice 5 Episode 6: Hard Graft and Hard Luck
Apprentice 5 Episode 5: Loyalty is all Very Well but Sometimes You need to Stand up to the Top Dog.
Will Finance ride to the rescue?
May (37)
Becoming Better at Management than Blancmange
Apprentice 5 Episode 4: Saved by the Spray tan: Beauty and the Bottom Line
It's all about you! – Reward blog with a difference. By Colin Miller, Kent County Council
God I’m Board
Apprentice 5: Episode 3: Not Having a Cloche Doesn't Get you Tea or Sympathy.
Minimising the unintended consequences of performance pay. By Sylvia Doyle, Reward First People Consulting
The worst Office Politician in the world
Apprentice 5: Episode 2: Edna’s Psych Ops and Leon’s App Flop
Apprentice 5: Episode 1: Play to your Strengths..(please!).
Impossible Questions and Chameleons. By Ray Naylor, GDF SUEZ
Learning from the Apprentice 4: How companies Make (and lose) Bread.
Wanted: Corporate Allies - Any Idiot Can Apply
What’s in a name? by Alan Measures, Director of Reward, Moog
April (31)
What’ve You Done With My Culture, You Maniac??
An Induction Process to Die For
Reward management; is it about the policies and processes, or the purpose and the people? Duncan Brown, Principal Reward and Engagement, Aon Hewitt
Hitting the brick wall of the Staff Handbook
Learning from the Apprentice 4. Are you a Melissa, an Alex or a Stella when it comes to business numbers?
Can we avoid that sinking feeling? by Deborah Moon, Reward Blogger
Going straight to the top
Learning From the Apprentice 3: Commercial Edge Counts First and Foremost
How do we assess and reward leaders? By Clive Wright, Director, Hyperion HR
How to Survive Your Induction
March (33)
Is local the new global? The changing patterns of global mobility by Mark Childs
New Roots for Sally Gulliver
Is there such a thing as high performance working? by Angela Baron
Behaviours in the Tardis?
Chickenless heads, and the dog ate my Blackberry!
Pensions and the future of work by Charles Cotton
We’re ankle deep in codes….
You’ve lifted performance – but we still don’t want you!
Pay as if People Mattered by Adam Sorensen
Panel panic
Au revoir TheHRD
A throne, and a passage to India?
Developing reward capability by Leigh Harrison
February (25)
The sounds of not listening
More than ‘skirts on seats’
Rain and new shoes
Transparency in Reward by Glen Jenkins
The enemy is us
Learning from The Apprentice: Creativity and Innovation Counts
Getting with the programme
The world of CIPD reward research, by Charles Cotton
January (32)
Disclosing pay ratios - hindrance or help? by Katharine Turner
Not If, But When – The Inevitable Cycle of Pay Practice by Mark Childs
Even Dastardly Aliens Are Hit By The Recession
Learning from The Apprentice: 1: Desperate Dan’s Leadership Dilemma
Taking the pain out of the pay review by Charles Cotton
Pay, living standards and Scrooge, by Charles Cotton
2010 (81)
December (27)
Apprentice 12: Why Stella shone and Chris will be OK and what it tells us about Britain’s talent travesty
Will we be minding the gap in 2011? by Deborah Moon
So: what have we learned in 2010?
The Apprentice 11: Found out and Feeling the Vengeance of the Lord
Employee incentives: What works for different cultures? by Christian Arno
Get on the Bus! Fight in the Boardroom or Get Fired
The Apprentice 9: Hard Luck stories and Soft Noses.
Performance management: can we practice what we preach? by Duncan Brown
HRD: The Definite Article
November (48)
Having a strategy is the easy bit, it's making it work that's difficult. by Bruce Thompson
Apprentice 8; Taking One for the Team When the Chips are Down Can get You Fired.
My HQ is an Igloo
Insight-driven HR: A foresight saga? by Charles Cotton
The Apprentice 7: Good Teams Prop up Bad Leaders
Apprentice 6: Alex Walked because he Didn't Walk the Talk
EMAIL STOP TWEET STOP PLEASE STOP! ‘Doesn’t anyone want to sit about anymore?’
Apprentice 5; Pride and Pushiness
Do incentives work? by Mark Goodlake
October (33)
Apprentice 4: Found out
Will public sector performance survive the cuts? by Angela Baron
The Apprentice 3: Empty Vessels, and Baked-in costs
Where is total reward when you need it? by Sylvia Doyle, Reward First People Consulting
The Apprentice 2: Creativity catfights and commercial suicide.
You Are About To Become A Leisure Industry
What's it worth to you? by Adam Sorensen
Mummy... when I grow up I want to be an HR Business Partner
The Apprentice 1: Why Desperate Dan Got Fired
Keep Calm and Carry on … to the Conference! By Leigh Harrison, Head of Executive Reward at Sainsbury’s
September (27)
Power to the People by Glen Jenkins
Bruschettas and Custard Creams
Death or Glory (or is it naïve optimism?) by Colin Miller
What rain can teach us about reward, by Charles Cotton
Earth: An Employer Brand
Move over Russell Crowe! There’s never been a better time to be a reward consultant! by Steve Watson
August (37)
Executive Reward - the search for capital accumulation by Mark Childs
Silly Rewards by Clive Wright
Research and Design Trumps Human Resources
Pensions, pensions, pensions by Charles Cotton
Will employers end up footing the education and communication costs of 2012 pension reforms? Charles Cotton
Habits and Happiness 18: Getting the Measure of Change
Back to the 1970s, or have we ever truly left? by Charles Cotton
Habits and Happiness 17: Obliquity and Getting into the Swim of Things
How much? by Jim McInally
July (27)
Time to stop playing the blame game? By Deborah Moon, Reward blogger
The Unclear Career
Who moved the goal posts? The challenge of performance linked pay. By Nicki Demby, Towers Watson
One Man’s Struggle against the Forces of Geography
Knowledge required by reward professionals by Bruce Thompson
Habits and Happiness 16: Bringing Happiness to Book
June (26)
Habits and Happiness 15: Habits and (all too) Human Error
Fighting Off Engagement on the Annual Shoe-Buying Trip
Habits and Happiness 14: Success is always relative
Public sector pay and pensions: the easy route to deficit reduction? By Duncan Brown, Institute of Employment Studies
Habits and Happiness 13: Success is (probably) Squiggly
Why are jobs paid differently? by Colin Evans
Your Money or Your Life? By Paul Bissell
How much does a Grecian Urn? by Dusty Amroliwala
May (37)
Engagement and Reward – What’s going on? By Mark Goodlake
Succeeding through Behaviour? by Angela Baron
Voting on variable pay alive and well on General Election day? by Sylvia Doyle
Will social media bring down the final barriers to pay transparency? by Adam Sorensen
April (31)
Cycling Very Slowly Away from Volcanoes
A volcanic problem? Just apply principles by Leigh Harrison
Habits and Happiness 12: Getting there but not very fast
The Big Freeze by Glen Jenkins
Habits and Happiness 11: Pain and effort = payoff.
Ask not what your organisation can do for you, but what you can stop doing for your organisation. By Colin Miller
Reforming Executive Pay: is regulation the only way? By Dr Jonathan Trevor
Habits and Happiness 10: Its a cycle just keep going
March (33)
Habits and Happiness 9: If at First you don’t Succeed…
Measurement for Measurement: A comedy or a tragedy? By Steven Watson
Milkmen Never Work From Home
Lost in the reward career journey – who was meant to bring the compass? by Mark Childs
The Majestic Beauty of Industrial Estates
What’s new in reward – managing new staff by Clive Wright
Reward Conference highlights by John Beadle
February (25)
Time to retire the state pension? by Charles Cotton
Habits and Happiness 8: Keep doing it. It’s a new habit till you want it to stop
January (32)
Frostbite Ate My Blackberry
Habits and Happiness Part 7: Celebrate Success and lay off the Butter
Habits and Happiness Part 6: Notice and "feel" the change (or feel the belt tightening).
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Apprentice 2012 - The Final: Wricky Wrestles the Wonga and Tom, Jade and Nick Submit
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Wricky the Wrester will wrestle no more which is sad. After winning the big purse he is hanging up his shiny Speedo's and keeping his mask for other activities. Wresting which I generally think is about authentic as a beach bought Rolex, will suffer...
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 11: Chocolate Heaven Makes Business Mess and Well-groomed Plodders Shine
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Adam headed up the other team and used his charm and selling prowess but unfortunately none of them thought about the business model. They had lots of great ideas, chocolate lollipops turning into delish hot chocolate, drunken jellies, lovely sweet caramel...
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 10: Jades deal driving and nothing from Tring mark Stephen’s Coupon
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This was Stephen's demise. His oily sales talk had got him off the hook when Jenna was fired last week. He offered the "let me lead" gambit and Sugar accepted. The task was about buying luxury discount coupons. Even in a recession there...
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 9: Poor quality fizz and not enough sparkle knocks cheesy Jenna off the throne
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This was a marketing and pitching task and the teams were tweaked to tackle the task of putting the fizz into English wine. The brief was market undersold English sparling wine against Champagne's monopoly in fizz. Bieberboy Nick was recruited into...
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 8: Pure Evil, Pure Ego and Laura Sells herself Short
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This was the usual "out of the comfort zone" task involving art and artiness. Lord Sugar likes this one because he can see who sells whilst having a laugh at the ponciness of it all. Anyway Sterling under Adam went off to London and Bristol...
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 7: The only way is assets and you can't fake strategy
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This week it was about buying wholesale and flogging at margin though this time the measure was total assets. Jade stepped up to lead team Phoenix and very quickly showed that she was a total ass. She kicked and brayed in that Claire Short voice and chose...
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 6: Tartan up the favourites to win hearts and minds
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This was an innovation challenge. Make a new sort of mobile fast food and flog it at a profit. A lot can be done with fast food. It could for example, be fast and as a football fan I'd like to see it priced so that buying burgers doesn't tally...
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 5: Phoenix’s retro-cheek leads to Duane being fitted up
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Innovation requires a little bit of time so that you can incubate ideas and get insights. It means sometimes trying to think outside the boundaries but both teams really were so inside the box on this task that they could have been cuboid. Phoenix was...
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 4: Left Holding the Junk and coming up against a Brick Lane led to Jane’s Downfall
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This was a buy and sell task where the teams were asked to buy and sell junk. Tom's approach was to buy selectively and present minimally. He took a tight rein on the cash and resisted Adam the greengrocers attempted strategy coup to pile it high...
Apprentice 2012 - Episode 3: Don’t make a pickle of production and have the sauce to sell
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Anyone who remembers the brilliant film The Graduate will recall that the advice given to young buck Dustin Hoffman by the older men is to “get into plastics”. Lord Sugar told this lot to "corner condiments". He explained that that...
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