You´re fired and You´re Hired

YOU'RE FIRED! Amy Henry, the female contestant to be fired on the first season of "The Apprentice",  has styled a career out of inspirational speaking engagements.  Her new book, "What It Takes", draws from the same material.  Ms. Henry uses her own business experiences to present, as her book's subtitle states, a modern woman's guide to success in business. Those who watched her season know that she has had to handle issues of sexuality at work, but in the book she seems more interested in bragging about her own attractiveness - she lets readers know that she is 5'8", weighs 120 pounds, and has been bleaching her hair blonde since the sixth grade.

YOU'RE HIRED! Apprentice fans saw a familiar face when Bill Rancic sat in for Donald Trump´s regular right-hand man, George Ross.  Sitting in one of the hit-series´ seats of judgment, the first season´s champion even had a heated exchange with the eventual recipient of Trump´s dreaded catch phrase, "You´re fired".   Rancic, 32, who was a Chicago entrepreneur before "The Apprentice", took some time out from his day job - working on the construction of Trump´s new 90-story Chicago high-rise.  He has a new book, You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life From the Winner of 'The Apprentice', was surely an attempt to cash in on Rancic's instant fame after being hired by Trump.

Trump´s right-hand woman

Carolyn Kepcher, who recently published a new book "Carolyn 101". In the show "The Apprentice" she was offer seen on Donald Trump´s left side, Kepcher has won over viewers with her combination of intelligence, candor, and "looks".

In here book, she provide advices that was concise and relevant, no matter if the reader is just starting out (she advises all employees to take ownership of their areas of responsibility), or working in upper management (she advises companies to give their employees room to grow in order to retain them). Carolyn includes a section on her book about how she has managed to succeed in her job while raising two children, but this is the one area where her experience doesn´t seem applicable to the average woman.  Kepcher writes about the importance of having a partner who supports a woman´s choices in balancing work and family.

By the way, her boss too have a new book grandiosely titled "Think Like A Billionaire".  In contrast with this book title, it's unclear how just thinking like a mogul can create wealth.   Anyhow, the book have included a segment on what Trump calls the Mar-A-Lago diet, which seems to involve hiring a personal chef to fire up some Chilean sea bass. Trump includes short bios of each of the second season contestants and then traces his route around the city each day...  so much on how a Billionaire thinks!