The Apprentice Blog

Hiring a CEO

Amy, Ereka, Katrina and Kristi were all approached by Playboy and offered $250,000 to pose nude for the magazine.

They chose, instead, to pose for FHM for free. More Details from New York Post Online

Given that these women all had aspirations for a CEO role in one of Donald Trump's companies, I wonder what the best business decision in this situation is. Does leveraging your sexuality get you ahead in business or does it cheapen your personal brand?

POLL CLOSED
So the question was...
All other things being equal, who would you hire to run your company?
We had some technical difficulties with the poll so the results are approximates based on results prior to the technical issue...

With almost 1000 votes tallied the results were:

Someone who pose nude for Playboy for $250,000 - 20%

Someone who posed scantily clad for FHM for free - 10%

If those were the only options, I'd start the recruiting all over again. - 70%

I like the fact that people would be more likely to hire someone who saw a money making opportunity and took advantage of it, than someone who gets photographed in their underwear for free. "A head for business and a bod. for fun."

Business 501 - Stand up for yourself

With the giving up, backstabbing, and poor decision making this week's business lessons from The Apprentice are pretty clear.

Trump’s tip of the day – Stand up for yourself, because no one else will.
- Sure Kristi’s team failed, and her leadership was a big part of that. But Donald has already demonstrated his willingness to keep a Project Manager around even if they failed, if they have shown potential, and step up in the boardroom.
- Kristi was fired because she didn't stand up for herself.

Kristi Frank's TVGuide Interview

tvguide.com - [TV Guide] Trump's First Lady Loser Speaks!

Quick summary of interesting responses...

TVGO: Given the chance to lead your team again in the same task, what would you have done differently?
Kristi: I might not have done so much research on the flea markets. We spent a lot of time finding out what products would sell. We should have just jumped in and picked a product.

TVGO: What do you think happened to the missing money?

Ain't no fleas on us

Summary:

before anything there was a team reshuffle

• New Protégé - Kristi, Jessie, Heidi, Omarosa, Kwame, Troy
  
• New Versacorp - Nick, Bill, Amy, Erica, Katrina, Tammy

$1000 to get merchandise to sell at flea markets

Protégé decided (very late in the day) to buy merchandise from Chinatown to resell

Versacorp decided to make customized teeshirts and jewellery

Project Mgrs: Nick - Versacorp, Kristi - Protégé

Kristi Frank

"You have to want and aspire to Trump's lifestyle to be like Trump."Kristi is a 30-year old resident of Bel Air, CA. Armed with a degree in Industrial Engineering, she has real estate holdings and co-owns Juliano's RAW in Santa Monica. CA.