Gordo forms panel of business gurus

[Swamp Thing]

"Disclosures obtained by a national broadsheet claim Sir Alan Sugar, Amstrad chairman and star of BBC1’s The Apprentice, will head the newly formed Business Council for Britain."

Jesus, talk about the Wrong Stuff. They may as well put Sayed Ahmed and Katie Hopkins on the panel.

[Old Greg]

"Disclosures obtained by a national broadsheet claim Sir Alan Sugar, Amstrad chairman and star of BBC1’s The Apprentice, will head the newly formed Business Council for Britain."

Jesus, talk about the Wrong Stuff. They may as well put Sayed Ahmed and Katie Hopkins on the panel.

I'd put in the woman on Yahoo Answers that Sockpuppet's discovered.

[DodgyAgent]

You may not like Sugar but there is a brutal straightforward honesty about how he looks at business. Brown could easily have picked some corporate brownnoser with a silver spoon education. Give me a self made man like Sugar any day.

[The Lone Gunman]

Most of these guys have got where they are by being ruthless.
They play hard ball and most have taken no prisoners when it comes to competition.
What makes Gordo think they will not use this opportunity to that end?

Possibility: Maybe Gordo know which way the wind blows and is lining himself up for a coupel of cushy directorships post PM.
Possibly he i sjust looking for someone who can bay him a decent lunch or will get him access to places his title wont.

[andy]

maybe sugar will finally sell his wierd email telephone combos to government

[Swamp Thing]

You may not like Sugar but there is a brutal straightforward honesty about how he looks at business. Brown could easily have picked some corporate brownnoser with a silver spoon education. Give me a self made man like Sugar any day.

...who sold naff hi-fi in the '80s and computers to the education sector which are apparently unreliable. Hmmm.

Self-made is fine: What about Richard Branson? Now there's someone who is not just thinking "Flog it for cost + x% or you're fired".

[lilelvis2000]

You may not like Sugar but there is a brutal straightforward honesty about how he looks at business. Brown could easily have picked some corporate brownnoser with a silver spoon education. Give me a self made man like Sugar any day.

The fact he is a strong Labour supporter and even appeared in a campaign video the previous election has nothing at all to do with?

[DodgyAgent]

...who sold naff hi-fi in the '80s and computers to the education sector which are apparently unreliable. Hmmm.

Self-made is fine: What about Richard Branson? Now there's someone who is not just thinking "Flog it for cost + x% or you're fired".

Dixons sold them and they went wrong yet these people still made money!!
Had they got some Etonian city slicker with a silver spoon in his mouth you would have been happier?

As for the cynics amongst you, you are absolutely right. No one is doing this for altruistic purposes, and nor would anyone else.

[Kyajae]

You may not like Sugar but there is a brutal straightforward honesty about how he looks at business. Brown could easily have picked some corporate brownnoser with a silver spoon education. Give me a self made man like Sugar any day.

Sugar is a dinosaur who makes most of his money through investments, not production. His abrasive style of management (note the word management, he's certainly no leader) gives the wrong message about how to be an effective boss. He is a thoroughly unlikeable character. Yet, if his approach results in making money and screwing others, and you think that is the be all and end all of it, far from me to criticise.

Richard Branson and Digby Jones are the types of people modern managers should aspire to.

[swamp]

Amstrad enjoyed 25% share of European home computer market at one point. They then threw it away by not investing in R&D. Great example shown there by Sir Alan Sugar...