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The Apprentice - Alan Sugar's top tips for business success |   |
The excellent "Apprentice" BBC series which ended in May saw 14 ambitious business people put through a series of rigorous challenges in order to win a £100k job with Alan Sugar, founder of Amstrad.
The BBC has published some key tips from Sugar on its website - "There is a very serious underlying meaning to each programme - a lot of people are going to learn some great business lessons from it."
The key points are:
1. Respect authority
2. Listen to your colleagues
3. Be flexible
4. Know your market
5. Control your costs
6. Don't pretend
You can read the full story on the BBC website.
Posted May 4, 2005
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