Topic: | Playing a nasty game | |
Posted by: | Malcolm Peltu | |
Date/Time: | 28/10/10 14:30:00 |
What I find sad about the Apprentice is the difference between the behaviour of people on the programme and when they come on You're Fired after being sacked (as well as the venom with which viewers attack people they have never met but seen only through the distorting mirrors of the programmes producers). The model contestants seem to have of how to behave in business is be as boastful, jargon-spewing, nasty and aggressive as possible. Yet when they are acting as themselves, they become likeable, witty human beings again. That is why I think it is one of the most sharply satirical programmes on TV, reflecting what seems to have become the current values to which we are meant to aspire. I am old enough to remember when the compassionate, wise and successful John Harvey Jones was regarded as the model business manager on TV. And I was fortunate enough to work much of my life in an era when his was the widely accepted model (in this country at least) of how managers should act and how humans at work should treat each other. So my views can be easily be dismissed as grumpy old bloke moaning by today's thrusting business 'entrepreneurs'. |