The Celebrity Apprentice finished up and and the celebrity apprentice winner was announced. One more season is down in the books. Admittedly, I like the apprentice to a degree…its fun seeing terrible candidates or B list celebrities getting whats coming to them after having tried to rat on team members and in laughing at the depths of humiliation people will go to to try and win.

The main problem with the apprentice, and even more with celebrity apprentice is that people take it much to seriously as some sort of reflection of the business world and careers. I was at a bachelor party last night and one of the guys their was talking about the apprentice and he said I quote “I think its a good inside look at the business world with Donald Trump.”

There were episodes with people running around trying to sell tickets to something, or fruit to people on the street. Its a completely ridiculous game: except that it is supposed to be a serious test of business skill. Its more a test of who can run their mouth the best, as the winner of celebrity apprentice Piers Morgan is proof of.

Its not that business isn’t stressful or competitive or that you don’t ever have to sell anything, but even the most cut throat business are a mixture of competition and co operation….vs the apprentices focus on greed, backstabbing, accusing, and blaming. Thats no way to build a career.

Remember folks, for entertainment, watch the apprentice (and read this blog) and for career information read some good books (and this blog). Oh and the answer to the question:

What did the celebrity apprentice teach us about business?

A whole lot of nothin

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