LOVE IT OR LOATHE IT, BBC TV’s The Apprentice has made stars of many and now it’s made a ‘tsar’ of Sir Alan Sugar following Gordon Brown’s decision to appoint him as ‘enterprise tsar’: To qualify him to join the government, Sir Alan will be nominated for a seat in the House of Lords - not bad for a lad who left school at 16 and started his business career selling car aerials. Sir Alan’s brief will be to champion business and enterprise for the government but quite how he will set about it remains to be seen.
Sir Alan has remained resolutely self-employed up to this point in his business life and one wonders if his commercial talents would ever have been spotted or encouraged by an employer? As an HR consultancy we are asked constantly to help employers make the right choices when selecting and maintaining their teams, but maybe self-employment gave Sir Alan his only realistic chance of achieving his ambitions?
Certainly television has raised his profile to the point where even Gordon Brown must be hoping some of his charisma and ’showbiz sparkle’ rubs off on a government with a revolving door policy when it comes to hiring and keeping cabinet ministers.
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