Kendra is the new Apprentice. Although I pulled for Tana much of the way, she had way too much Amway Mary Kay sales rally in her to be taken seriously as an executive. Kendra, on the other hand, got better with each installment. I will admit to being biased toward a real estate broker. While the series seems to have declined in quality with each season, she is, in my eyes, every bit as good as Bill Rancic and Kelly Perdew.
This was not my favorite finale. That would be season 2, when Jennifer was absolutely embarrassed by the show of support everyone except her boss showed Kelly. This spoke to the importance of personal likability in business. Jennifer couldn’t mask her bitchiness brazen ambition, and that obscured Kelly’s vanilla personality. Tana and Kendra were far more engaging, and while I’d give Tana the edge in charisma, she was way too rough around the edges.
They will spin off another series with Martha Stewart and I guess Trump will remain in the mix. I’m not inspired enough to look it up. One request to the producers: please, no more gimmicks. Book smarts vs street smarts was an abject failure, and some of the street guys were really sub par.
Update: 007 fans will love Kendra’s website. She should ditch the glamour shots. Verna, the one who quit in the 2nd or 3rd week, also has a site where she markets herself as a speaker. What would she talk about, how to quit? And why do so many of the candidates’s web pages have all that annoying multi media flash garbage? Tana’s site is almost unreadable.
J. Philip Faranda
Couple of comments:
1) Tana annoyed the hell out of me.
2) I knew Tana was doomed as soon as she opened her big mouth to Carolyn Kepcher. Kepcher, though sycophantic, is a smart businesswoman, and she’s perceptive enough to realize that if Tana feels comfortable badmouthing her teammates in front of the world, then who knows what she’d do at an inopportune time if actually working for Trump. Doubtless this message was conveyed to Trump, off air, long before last night’s finale.
3) Pure sales ability is great in some areas but not great in others. Some businesses thrive on aggressive sales (cars, stocks, etc.) and others require a more circumspect approach. Trump likes bravado. But he likes results even better.
4) I agree that this season’s Apprentice was not as good as the first. I didn’t care much for the second season, though I thought Jennifer was the far more impressive candidate. She’s too smart to work for Trump, though, and will do very well as a lawyer.