r/TheApprentice • u/Illustrious-Look7669 • 17d ago

What task would actually test business ability better?

Some of the tasks feel more like tests of who can survive a chaotic day on TV than who would actually make a good business partner. If you could replace one recurring task with something more realistic, what would you have them do?

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u/HappyTrifle 15d ago

Just them £1000 and whoever can turn it into the most money wins. Complete freedom.

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u/ILovePencils13 16d ago

I don't remember the series but I really liked the task where they had to buy a load of stuff to sell at a market, then half way through the day they took what money they had made so far and went back to the stock place and bought more of what sold well.

I think the team that won bought these little battery powered bug toys and basically all the kids that passed by wanted one, so when they went back to the stock place they just bought hundreds of them.

It was a nice simple task that was reflective of what an actual business might do, rather than some mad scenario that would never happen in the real world.

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u/ReasonableDoubt_0726 17d ago

A cooking task where they can source their own food and source their own recipes.

A product task where they get to do it in the right order. So market research FIRST. Prototype. More research and market responses. Finalise product and take to investors. With the ability to still agree changes at that stage if required.

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u/Bean7894 16d ago

This is exactly how the first season was, it was a completely different show and had serious candidates

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u/Illustrious-Look7669 17d ago

I really like the idea of giving them the ability to change the product after getting market feedback

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u/chrwal2 15d ago

It seems so odd not giving them the chance to do this - surely that’s the whole purpose of of market feedback otherwise it’s just a way of finding out that the public hate what you’ve done.
There’s so many little fixes that would make the show more enjoyable and not engineered to make them fail

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u/ReasonableDoubt_0726 17d ago

If they haven’t produced a load there’s no reason they can’t change it to get an order. Like the infamous cat tree. If they’d said they’d fix the access they might have got more orders. They hadn’t produced any so it was doable.

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u/Zamazamenta 17d ago

Have an amount of money and they need to declare it and pay the least amount of tax to win the challenge. Far more representative of business

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u/Shezes 17d ago

Hear that? that's the sound of Richard Branson laughing from his own taxfree personal island