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Articles and news about the entrepreneur TV show ‘The Apprentice’. Includes interviews with some of the more memorable participants about their experiences and the new businesses they have started since.

Employing & managing staff

Apprentice winner Mark Wright on how to build the right team

Mark Wright, winner of TV’s The Apprentice, believes you have to manage yourself out of your own business if you want to grow it. In short, learn to trust your team

Podcasts

Jackie Fast: ‘I can say that I didn’t love being in The Apprentice house’

Anna Jordan meets Jackie Fast, an entrepreneur and former candidate on The Apprentice, for the latest Small Business Snippets podcast

Business management

Karren Brady Q&A – 6 qualities of a successful entrepreneur

SmallBusiness.co.uk meets Baroness Karren Brady to learn more about her career as a businesswoman and pick up some tips for entrepreneurs

News

The Apprentice: Karren Brady fighting sexism in business

As the thirteenth season of The Apprentice kicks off, Karren Brady makes the headlines for fighting the casual sexism of a candidate.

News

TV’s The Apprentice demonstrates outdated interview processes

Businesses should not be inspired to copy The Apprentice style process of interviewing candidates.

Blog

The way the apprentice cookie crumbles

Jamie Lyons, co-founder of FundedApps, Adi Gaskell, editor for the CMI's management blog, and Nigel Botterill, founder of Entrepreneur's Circle, offer their views on Wednesday's The Apprentice, in which the teams had to produce and market a new brand of biscuit.

Blog

Rock, Paper, Scissors: The new executive decision-making tool

Tony Goodwin, CEO of Antal International, and Phil Couchman, CEO of DHL Express, offer their views on Wednesday night's episode of The Apprentice, in which the teams tried to sell British products to the French.

Blog

Unreality show

It's become a cliche to complain that The Apprentice bears as much relation to the way business works as Jack and the Beanstalk does to the world of horticulture.

Business management

Beyond The Apprentice

At the end of the 2010 series of The Apprentice, SmallBusiness.co.uk finds out what happened to three previous contestants after the cameras stopped rolling.

News

Business owners not so sweet on Sugar job

The majority of SME owners would not accept a job working for Alan Sugar.

Business management

Claire Young: ‘Rottweiler’ of The Apprentice

Runner-up on The Apprentice Claire Young discusses being fired by Alan Sugar, turning down a job with Karren Brady and her new company Elegant Venues.

News

Small businesses need help, says Tim Campbell

Former winner of The Apprentice and Sir Alan Sugar favourite Tim Campbell believes the government should be doing more to help small businesses.

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