"...The third edition already taped and is slated to premiere next month.... This time, the teams will be divided by book smarts versus street smarts, not along gender lines. And the first task will be held at Burger King, where the high school grads and the college grads compete to see who can come up with the most enticing new menu item...."
"...The third edition already taped and is slated to premiere next month.... This time, the teams will be divided by book smarts versus street smarts, not along gender lines. And the first task will be held at Burger King, where the high school grads and the college grads compete to see who can come up with the most enticing new menu item...."
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Interesting article...
Oh yeah, I can see Trump hiring a high school grad over a college grad...
This is just a money making scheme now....I'm tired of it altogether.
It seems more like a Japanese game show now....where the contestants have to endure humiliating tasks, risk public scutiny, lie, cheat, and manipulate themselves to win a prize or a few minutes of fame and little fortune.
To some it may be worth it...all the media attention and something to add on to a resume, but this is a gimmicky show where the obnoxious boss makes a decision on who will generate more ratings week to week before the hapless contestant is "fired" for something trivial and beyond their control.
I won't be watching season 3 if that's what is to be expected.
Some of my co-workers have already stopped watching it from season 1, when they rigged the rental space to get Amy into the finals, and when Kwame was given a much more DIFFICULT task of handling a "flaky pop-tart's" concert and all Bill had to do was wait around for a bunch of old men in ugly plaid trousers to show up and hit a ball with a stick for charity.
Season three is going down in history as identifying the biggest fools on the show. It's so easy..... won't be Burnett and Trump.... but each of the contestants.
No one here on the board who knows anything about The Apprentice Shows will even go and apply, much less want to BE Trump's Apprentice. When he comes on the TV and proclaims "Maybe I'll make you my Apprentice" means Maybe I'll get to manipulate you and squeeze every ounce out of you until I make all the profits and you get a measely morsel.
In another word.... it shows why so many people like to be abused. They just go and go after all the stupid things. What? Just for 15 minutes of fame, but really the prize is you still have to make it on your own.
Getting a job for one year isn't really a job. It's just an assignment. Think about that.... just to get the crap beat out of them and make themselves out to be the world's biggest fools.
The format of the show is a little different than I would have expected. Taking this risk I think speaks to the staying power of the show. Ratings have gone down this season compared to last... I think that putting this show on so soon after #2 is a mistake. What made the anticipation of #2 work so well is that there was time off in between....a build up... we have what, a month to build up the new show... AND with a format that has most people shaking their heads....
I think it will be a hook to keep it interesting. I know I will watch based a lot on the fact that I want to see how things shake out with those two teams.
The street smart folks are very successful some own their own businesses. I mean think about Lee Iacocca who in the 1970's and 1980's was CEO of Chrysler, turned that company around from almost bankrupt to a strong successful company. He was a high school dropout.
Iacocca graduated as an industrial engineer from Lehigh University. After graduation, he started a career at the Ford as an engineer. In 1988, Lee made a generous gift back to his Alma Mater and founded "The Iacocca Institute" a division of the College of Business and Economics at Lehigh University.
It's a great read, if you have a chance. It's been a while and this is off the top of my memory. I loved how he came from a small town of rural America and jumped into big business with his sharp business skills. This guy had mapping skills and a straight shooter when he was young and going to college. Knew his way around, what made people buy cars, how to market it with creative financing, to beating the competition with new engineering designs (American Mustang) and climbed up that coporate ladder at Ford Motor Company. Lee knew how to manage risks. Here's what Business week said: "Vintage Iacocca... He is fast-talking, blunt, boastful, and unabashedly patriotic. Lee Iacocca is also a genuine folk hero... his career is breathtaking."
He didn't want much salary to help restructure bankrupt Chrysler, just $1 but with lots of stock options and perks. Of course, he had street smarts to know that once inside the company, he can dole out self-dealings. Lee can now run companies to line own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's typical American capitalism and became a real dilemma when this country moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes. But all in all Lee did take a bankrupt company and got an unprecedented $1.2 billion government bailout for Chysler to save American jobs. So that's not a bad idea after all and we Americans did get our tax dollars back and then some.
Los Angeles (AP) 4/1/90-- Lee Iacocca wed a 42-year-old restaurateur, Darrien Earle, in a secret ceremony Saturday attended by family members and about 100 friends.
The ceremony took place at the home of Allen Paulson, a former
business partner of Iacocca, the 66-year-old chairman of Chrysler Corp. Paulson's estate is across the street from the home of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner.
Iacocca's first wife died and he divorced his second wife.
Earle, who owns the Panama Reds restaurants in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, has said she will live at the auto magnate's home in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. She has three children from her first marriage.
BOOK SMART
Danny, 39 (guitar guy)
Verna, 31 (black BS lady)
Alex, 29 (cross between John and Andy from TA2)
Stephanie, 29 (slutty blonde)
Todd, 34 (cross between Kelly and John)
Michael, 25 (fat cross between John and Rob)
Kendra, 26 (looks like a Desperate Housewife)
Bren, 32 (that fat guy who looks British)
Erin, 26 (cute brunette)
STREET SMART
Audrey, 22 (cross between Nikki Cox and Kristi from TA1)
Tara, 28 (black SS lady)
John, 32 (big ugly ape-like guy)
Craig, 37 (black guy--nice to see a middle-age one for a change)
Chris, 21 (cross between John and Wes)
Angie, 41 (older looking brunette)
Brian, 29 (fat cross between Rob and Bowie)
Kristen, 31 (brunette *****y look)
Tana, 37 (looks a little like Carolyn)
12-16-2004 02:06 AM
Iacocca graduated as an industrial engineer from Lehigh University. After graduation, he started a career at the Ford as an engineer. In 1988, Lee made a generous gift back to his Alma Mater and founded "The Iacocca Institute" a division of the College of Business and Economics at Lehigh University. 
It's a great read, if you have a chance. It's been a while and this is off the top of my memory. I loved how he came from a small town of rural America and jumped into big business with his sharp business skills. This guy had mapping skills and a straight shooter when he was young and going to college. Knew his way around, what made people buy cars, how to market it with creative financing, to beating the competition with new engineering designs (American Mustang) and climbed up that coporate ladder at Ford Motor Company. Lee knew how to manage risks. Here's what Business week said: "Vintage Iacocca... He is fast-talking, blunt, boastful, and unabashedly patriotic. Lee Iacocca is also a genuine folk hero... his career is breathtaking."
