The Apprentice S01
E01
[task]
organization: start from simpley choosing a name
THE task: who is going to make the most money by selling lemonade?
250 dollars
[process]
men: location - equipment - free cups and grocery carts from ventors - selling - keeping people cooperated - attacking sale - realizing fish market is a poor location - new location -hiring beautiful girl - sell for $1000 -they are not respecting me - start reselling, $2 dollars a glass, "I have to buy it because you work so hard"-THEY DOUBLE THE MONEY
women: yelling (what is organization) - teams -wrong direction to Rockfellar Center - get team mebers together - sb buying food for herself - 10min rest, talking about it but leading to disagreement - selling sex with $5 a cup - THEY QUADRUPLE THE MONEY
[board room]
Fish market is not a good location. Will it be different if sb else is the project manager?
When you want to be chosen, you don't say, "let me finish", when I haven't finished my question.
Do you think they will listen to you? Yes, because I will listen to them first.
If you pick the right person, you are the hero. If you pick the wrong person, you are a bump. You are responsible for your choice.
A selective leader: inconsistance to different people
Did he go over the edge?
[Discussion]
1: Did Sam cross the line (by selling it for $1000)? Trump thinks yes, but the lady does not think so. The other VP thinks he is a risk taker. A wild man, either do great or a disaster.
2. Troy has charm, but he is an inconsistenet leader.
3. Troy, why you pick David? He is a righthand man. You don't think he is a leader.
4. David, I don't think you can step up at all. You even admiited you wouldn't be a great leader.
[sum up]
Location, location, location
People behind the deal
*protege
A protégé is a person who receives special protection and promotion from someone more established in a field. If your boss introduces you as his newest protégé, you're off to a good start in your career.
Essentially, a protégé is a teacher’s pet, someone who is given special status or favors. Often, the word is used for someone who has special standout talent and is taken up as an upcoming star or powerhouse. The word’s original associations, however, have nothing to do with talent and everything to do with how a person treats the protégé — the source of the word means “protection.”
When they hear sth, they want to go out and do it.
reaching to other girls
We have too many listeners. We need talker.
There is little correlation between IQ and selling lemonade.
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E02
[task]
advertising jets
a print ad + a commercial + a proposal
[process]
WOMEN TEAM
team 1: interview with jet executives with prepared questions
team 2: go to the airport with photographers - disagreement about ad taste, Tammy going to
extreme sexual implication (is there anything positive about this trick?)
presentation: dress up for the jet
-cons voice: start without timeline because not knowing exactly what to do (I begin to doubt if this
really matters.)
Verbal fight after the trimp dinner (the same question as men team: how to work together)
MEN TEAM
team discussion for assignment:
David raised the question: who is our clients? The manager decided to just go, without talking to a
client for the time limit.
So, airport team+support team (actually quite similar assignment)
Consesus on the ad: classy, safe
Presentation: who do it first?
-challenge: Sam felt the manager did not motive him. Sb else felt "You ask Sam what't the time. He tells you he built the block."
project manager assigned Sam to small tasks. Sam fell asleep as a resistance. (how do you deal with this kind of wild guy?)
[boss's choice]
sharp or safe in reality
The sharp team wins.
[boardroom]
Sam is not responsible for the failure, anyway.
(Why Jason picks Nick? Kind of disloyal. Nick contributed by teaching a member to do public speaking before the presentation.)
[sum up]
Talking to the president first. Deal with the boss.
-how to go from dysfuncton, disorganization to triumph?
-trying so hard, and still losing
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E03
[task]
negotiation for 10 items
tough, or sweet negotiators
[process]
Sam was given the chance to be the project manager, and he was fired
earn the respect or demand it
inappropriate timing in demanding, not giving enough clues or alternatives for vendors, yelling
[sum up]
some are easier to bargain (wax), some are harder (gold), or impossible (fish)
vendors varies: golf (no, or accepting 10% profit)
-Does yelling work? Well, it works for Trump, not for Sam.
-Time is always limited.
-Clear objectives for negotiation
-Flexible ways, or born negotiator
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E04
[task]
run a restaurant for one night
Women's team wins, as they focus on selling wines.
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E05
[task]
$1000, flea market
reshuffle the team: 2 men, 4 women
[process]
Versacorp
Nick let the women pick the goods and the stores.
Tammy thinks it is Nick's moment to shine that he should give up "showing himself".
plain T shirts, decorations, even materials from garbage - high morale
Then the pouring rain. Women get a bit low.
The rain stops. Nick asks the women, "you think we should stay out?"
Nick's way of leading gets appreciated. He does not take all credits, nor all responsibilities.
Everything is sold out.
Protege
Troy makes strong suggestions, and the manager listens to him, although she is reluctant.
Kormie thinks she lacks the strength in leadership.
M also thinks the manager should listen to people standing in the market, instread of RELYING on the call of Troy.
It takes the team a long time to pick the right goods.
They begin selling in subway.
When it rains heavily, the location is a nice shelter for the team to continue.
When the rain stops, Hedi and M tried to persuade the manager to move outside.
Hedi attacks the manager's "I don't know" or "frustrated look".
Troy tries to uplift the morale.
But the accounting finds that over $100 missing.
[boardroom]
M actually is responsible for the account.
Kristi gives up defending herself, or thinks it is a strategy, but she is fired.
Yankee stadium's boss - the secret is desire. Enjoy what you are doing.
[sum up]
-Protege: what makes the difference between "dictator/relying" and "standing up for yourself"?
-Versacorp: what makes the diffrence between "shine" and "let the expert do their job"?
-Stand up for yourself, for nobody else will do it for you. That's what Trump expects from an apprentice.
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E06-07
In negotiation with the celebrities, you really need to have many many ideas, and the team needs many faces/characters to correspond to the different personalities.
Jessie: don't act like a weak negotiator when asking for donation
what is worse than other's rudeness is that you takes it.
Bill: similarly, trying to ask for a higher price for the aparment
Katrina: as an expert in real estate, she should take charge of both the renovation and the price negotiation
Tammy: don't get in the way of your team (sth i need to remind myself of. When Tammy is regarded 'disloyal' by referring to her own team's criticicism of Troy as 'dishonest')
Omarosa: "sitting on her ass" and dramatise her headache. Posing meetings for meetings' sake
E08
[task]
selling Trump ice water
[process]
Beggers aren't choosers. Amy resents Omarosa's "just one case". Nick adds numbers to Ereka's trying to persuade.
Learn about your clients. The bar's storing ability is a question. So Troy comes up with the idea to turning to distributors, and that is a good share.
Nick tries to sell "Trump" the brand to a bar owner, and it does not work, which is commented by Katrina that Nick does not have the best interest of the client in mind.
Ereka: bad paper filing disappoints the supervisor; frantic in task; frantic in the pressure of the board room and in choosing who go to the boardroom
Nick: Be a salesman does not mean you are a good seller.
Troy: street smarts, even he has only a high school diploma.
Katrina: flattering Ereka and Ereka does not choose her to go to the boardroom
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E09
[task]
find a painter and sell his/her work
Amy was transferred again for balance.
[process]
Nick chooses a mainstream painter, despite Amy and Bill's different proposal. Then the team works together for the goal.
Kwawe, Heidi and Troy chooses an extreme painter, because her price is lower than others. They decide to take the risk. Omorosa has a different idea, but she agrees to risk.
Heidi and Omorasa split during the lunch time. Heidi wants to run. Omorasa wants to stay and have a long lunch, and she calls Kwawe to insist that.
They try to sell, but not so well. The curator asks them to include the painter in their comunication with potential buyers.
They finally sell a small painting.
[sum up]
sell things you believe.
Omorasa is fired. It is not imporatnt you know more, but how you work with the team.
GO WITH THE TEAM TOWARD THE GOAL, even you personally have different way of seeing it.
You can do anything once you set mind on it.
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E10
[task]
richshaw fleet, make a revenue
[process]
Amy: sell advertising + transportation
But the "girl drivers" idea does not work.
Tory tries to get prepaid, and have "fun selling".
Kwawe rides the rickshaw all day with zero customers, a waste of time.
Heidi just rides with them.
Heidi is fired.
[sum up]
- think out of the box.
- DON'T PUT EGGS IN ONE BASKET. How? Get CREATIVE.
- STEP UP AS A LEADER, OR CONTRIBUTE AS A FOLLOWER. "Heidi hasn't shown me anything."
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E11
[task]
draw people to casino and make them spend
[process]
Troy, Bill, Kwawe:
VIP: reception girl accompanying + big mill game + tiger
"have a good time" and pay
Amy, Nick, Katrina:
$300 for car rental
Trump's advice: to rent the car is to small, give the car
Katrina is fired, though she suggests belly dancers or tigers. She feels Amy always wants to "shine". She is regarded by judges as not outstanding.
[sum up]
-YOU REALLY NEED TO MAKE CUSTOMERS HAVE A GOOD TIME.
-20% PEOPLE SPEND 80%.
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E12
[task]
rent a luxury space for highest price
[process]
Amy, Nick:
Nick tries to visulize, and Amy disagrees with that strategy.
Nick asks for a high price: $40,800.
Troy, Bill, Kwawe:
Target: 30,000-40,00
Tory tries to let clients bidding. One is irratated.
They settle it with another client for &35,001
[sum up]
- "PASSION" OR CONFIDENCE TO ASK A RICH CUSTOMER FOR A HIGH PRICE
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E13
[task]
interview, 4 executives
Nick is fired. Good at performing/sales, but that's all.
Amy is fired. A hunger in her, not knowing where is the motivation. Empty characterer behind nice words.
Kwawe: a potential.
Bill: the way he speak. easily related to him. Bill answers challenges about his "energy" and degree.
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E14
[task]
Bill: run the golf course
Kwame: run a concert
Bill:
listen to expert
find the lost sponsors' sign in trash
check, double-check, recheck with Amy and Katrina
prepare for supper banquet, for presentation table, gift table, etc.
nervous under pressure
Kwame:
ask the expert to define "success" - taking good care of the star
not informed, information not shared: the rock star's transportation; the breakfast time; the number of people the hall can hold
Kwame suggests traffic flow to let fans line in to meet the star.
the manager criticizes Troy's way of talking to the VIPs to queue, "like talking to the third graders".
cannot locate the star as Omorosa does not pick the phone, when Trump arrives.
calm posture, laid-back
[sum up]
- point out when sth is wrong, when someone deceives you
- to lead is to get things under control, including details
- solving problems is a daily work
- both are finally respected by their "employees and former competitors"
--------------------------expressions-----------------------------------------------------------------------
She said she tried to get in touch with you last night.
can you hang on for a second?
You need to find the right flight number and what time these people are arriving.
great. what's your schedule?
I'm Bill. Nice to meet you. Have some fun today?
Congratulations on doing a good job.
First i want to thank everyone for coming taody. This is really a worthy course. X donated a lot of time and energy to help us prevent diabetes.
[task]
organization: start from simpley choosing a name
THE task: who is going to make the most money by selling lemonade?
250 dollars
[process]
men: location - equipment - free cups and grocery carts from ventors - selling - keeping people cooperated - attacking sale - realizing fish market is a poor location - new location -hiring beautiful girl - sell for $1000 -they are not respecting me - start reselling, $2 dollars a glass, "I have to buy it because you work so hard"-THEY DOUBLE THE MONEY
women: yelling (what is organization) - teams -wrong direction to Rockfellar Center - get team mebers together - sb buying food for herself - 10min rest, talking about it but leading to disagreement - selling sex with $5 a cup - THEY QUADRUPLE THE MONEY
[board room]
Fish market is not a good location. Will it be different if sb else is the project manager?
When you want to be chosen, you don't say, "let me finish", when I haven't finished my question.
Do you think they will listen to you? Yes, because I will listen to them first.
If you pick the right person, you are the hero. If you pick the wrong person, you are a bump. You are responsible for your choice.
A selective leader: inconsistance to different people
Did he go over the edge?
[Discussion]
1: Did Sam cross the line (by selling it for $1000)? Trump thinks yes, but the lady does not think so. The other VP thinks he is a risk taker. A wild man, either do great or a disaster.
2. Troy has charm, but he is an inconsistenet leader.
3. Troy, why you pick David? He is a righthand man. You don't think he is a leader.
4. David, I don't think you can step up at all. You even admiited you wouldn't be a great leader.
[sum up]
Location, location, location
People behind the deal
*protege
A protégé is a person who receives special protection and promotion from someone more established in a field. If your boss introduces you as his newest protégé, you're off to a good start in your career.
Essentially, a protégé is a teacher’s pet, someone who is given special status or favors. Often, the word is used for someone who has special standout talent and is taken up as an upcoming star or powerhouse. The word’s original associations, however, have nothing to do with talent and everything to do with how a person treats the protégé — the source of the word means “protection.”
When they hear sth, they want to go out and do it.
reaching to other girls
We have too many listeners. We need talker.
There is little correlation between IQ and selling lemonade.
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E02
[task]
advertising jets
a print ad + a commercial + a proposal
[process]
WOMEN TEAM
team 1: interview with jet executives with prepared questions
team 2: go to the airport with photographers - disagreement about ad taste, Tammy going to
extreme sexual implication (is there anything positive about this trick?)
presentation: dress up for the jet
-cons voice: start without timeline because not knowing exactly what to do (I begin to doubt if this
really matters.)
Verbal fight after the trimp dinner (the same question as men team: how to work together)
MEN TEAM
team discussion for assignment:
David raised the question: who is our clients? The manager decided to just go, without talking to a
client for the time limit.
So, airport team+support team (actually quite similar assignment)
Consesus on the ad: classy, safe
Presentation: who do it first?
-challenge: Sam felt the manager did not motive him. Sb else felt "You ask Sam what't the time. He tells you he built the block."
project manager assigned Sam to small tasks. Sam fell asleep as a resistance. (how do you deal with this kind of wild guy?)
[boss's choice]
sharp or safe in reality
The sharp team wins.
[boardroom]
Sam is not responsible for the failure, anyway.
(Why Jason picks Nick? Kind of disloyal. Nick contributed by teaching a member to do public speaking before the presentation.)
[sum up]
Talking to the president first. Deal with the boss.
-how to go from dysfuncton, disorganization to triumph?
-trying so hard, and still losing
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E03
[task]
negotiation for 10 items
tough, or sweet negotiators
[process]
Sam was given the chance to be the project manager, and he was fired
earn the respect or demand it
inappropriate timing in demanding, not giving enough clues or alternatives for vendors, yelling
[sum up]
some are easier to bargain (wax), some are harder (gold), or impossible (fish)
vendors varies: golf (no, or accepting 10% profit)
-Does yelling work? Well, it works for Trump, not for Sam.
-Time is always limited.
-Clear objectives for negotiation
-Flexible ways, or born negotiator
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E04
[task]
run a restaurant for one night
Women's team wins, as they focus on selling wines.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E05
[task]
$1000, flea market
reshuffle the team: 2 men, 4 women
[process]
Versacorp
Nick let the women pick the goods and the stores.
Tammy thinks it is Nick's moment to shine that he should give up "showing himself".
plain T shirts, decorations, even materials from garbage - high morale
Then the pouring rain. Women get a bit low.
The rain stops. Nick asks the women, "you think we should stay out?"
Nick's way of leading gets appreciated. He does not take all credits, nor all responsibilities.
Everything is sold out.
Protege
Troy makes strong suggestions, and the manager listens to him, although she is reluctant.
Kormie thinks she lacks the strength in leadership.
M also thinks the manager should listen to people standing in the market, instread of RELYING on the call of Troy.
It takes the team a long time to pick the right goods.
They begin selling in subway.
When it rains heavily, the location is a nice shelter for the team to continue.
When the rain stops, Hedi and M tried to persuade the manager to move outside.
Hedi attacks the manager's "I don't know" or "frustrated look".
Troy tries to uplift the morale.
But the accounting finds that over $100 missing.
[boardroom]
M actually is responsible for the account.
Kristi gives up defending herself, or thinks it is a strategy, but she is fired.
Yankee stadium's boss - the secret is desire. Enjoy what you are doing.
[sum up]
-Protege: what makes the difference between "dictator/relying" and "standing up for yourself"?
-Versacorp: what makes the diffrence between "shine" and "let the expert do their job"?
-Stand up for yourself, for nobody else will do it for you. That's what Trump expects from an apprentice.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E06-07
In negotiation with the celebrities, you really need to have many many ideas, and the team needs many faces/characters to correspond to the different personalities.
Jessie: don't act like a weak negotiator when asking for donation
what is worse than other's rudeness is that you takes it.
Bill: similarly, trying to ask for a higher price for the aparment
Katrina: as an expert in real estate, she should take charge of both the renovation and the price negotiation
Tammy: don't get in the way of your team (sth i need to remind myself of. When Tammy is regarded 'disloyal' by referring to her own team's criticicism of Troy as 'dishonest')
Omarosa: "sitting on her ass" and dramatise her headache. Posing meetings for meetings' sake
E08
[task]
selling Trump ice water
[process]
Beggers aren't choosers. Amy resents Omarosa's "just one case". Nick adds numbers to Ereka's trying to persuade.
Learn about your clients. The bar's storing ability is a question. So Troy comes up with the idea to turning to distributors, and that is a good share.
Nick tries to sell "Trump" the brand to a bar owner, and it does not work, which is commented by Katrina that Nick does not have the best interest of the client in mind.
Ereka: bad paper filing disappoints the supervisor; frantic in task; frantic in the pressure of the board room and in choosing who go to the boardroom
Nick: Be a salesman does not mean you are a good seller.
Troy: street smarts, even he has only a high school diploma.
Katrina: flattering Ereka and Ereka does not choose her to go to the boardroom
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E09
[task]
find a painter and sell his/her work
Amy was transferred again for balance.
[process]
Nick chooses a mainstream painter, despite Amy and Bill's different proposal. Then the team works together for the goal.
Kwawe, Heidi and Troy chooses an extreme painter, because her price is lower than others. They decide to take the risk. Omorosa has a different idea, but she agrees to risk.
Heidi and Omorasa split during the lunch time. Heidi wants to run. Omorasa wants to stay and have a long lunch, and she calls Kwawe to insist that.
They try to sell, but not so well. The curator asks them to include the painter in their comunication with potential buyers.
They finally sell a small painting.
[sum up]
sell things you believe.
Omorasa is fired. It is not imporatnt you know more, but how you work with the team.
GO WITH THE TEAM TOWARD THE GOAL, even you personally have different way of seeing it.
You can do anything once you set mind on it.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E10
[task]
richshaw fleet, make a revenue
[process]
Amy: sell advertising + transportation
But the "girl drivers" idea does not work.
Tory tries to get prepaid, and have "fun selling".
Kwawe rides the rickshaw all day with zero customers, a waste of time.
Heidi just rides with them.
Heidi is fired.
[sum up]
- think out of the box.
- DON'T PUT EGGS IN ONE BASKET. How? Get CREATIVE.
- STEP UP AS A LEADER, OR CONTRIBUTE AS A FOLLOWER. "Heidi hasn't shown me anything."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E11
[task]
draw people to casino and make them spend
[process]
Troy, Bill, Kwawe:
VIP: reception girl accompanying + big mill game + tiger
"have a good time" and pay
Amy, Nick, Katrina:
$300 for car rental
Trump's advice: to rent the car is to small, give the car
Katrina is fired, though she suggests belly dancers or tigers. She feels Amy always wants to "shine". She is regarded by judges as not outstanding.
[sum up]
-YOU REALLY NEED TO MAKE CUSTOMERS HAVE A GOOD TIME.
-20% PEOPLE SPEND 80%.
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E12
[task]
rent a luxury space for highest price
[process]
Amy, Nick:
Nick tries to visulize, and Amy disagrees with that strategy.
Nick asks for a high price: $40,800.
Troy, Bill, Kwawe:
Target: 30,000-40,00
Tory tries to let clients bidding. One is irratated.
They settle it with another client for &35,001
[sum up]
- "PASSION" OR CONFIDENCE TO ASK A RICH CUSTOMER FOR A HIGH PRICE
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E13
[task]
interview, 4 executives
Nick is fired. Good at performing/sales, but that's all.
Amy is fired. A hunger in her, not knowing where is the motivation. Empty characterer behind nice words.
Kwawe: a potential.
Bill: the way he speak. easily related to him. Bill answers challenges about his "energy" and degree.
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E14
[task]
Bill: run the golf course
Kwame: run a concert
Bill:
listen to expert
find the lost sponsors' sign in trash
check, double-check, recheck with Amy and Katrina
prepare for supper banquet, for presentation table, gift table, etc.
nervous under pressure
Kwame:
ask the expert to define "success" - taking good care of the star
not informed, information not shared: the rock star's transportation; the breakfast time; the number of people the hall can hold
Kwame suggests traffic flow to let fans line in to meet the star.
the manager criticizes Troy's way of talking to the VIPs to queue, "like talking to the third graders".
cannot locate the star as Omorosa does not pick the phone, when Trump arrives.
calm posture, laid-back
[sum up]
- point out when sth is wrong, when someone deceives you
- to lead is to get things under control, including details
- solving problems is a daily work
- both are finally respected by their "employees and former competitors"
--------------------------expressions-----------------------------------------------------------------------
She said she tried to get in touch with you last night.
can you hang on for a second?
You need to find the right flight number and what time these people are arriving.
great. what's your schedule?
I'm Bill. Nice to meet you. Have some fun today?
Congratulations on doing a good job.
First i want to thank everyone for coming taody. This is really a worthy course. X donated a lot of time and energy to help us prevent diabetes.
