You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice

Author - Bill Rancic ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Collins Business was reviewed on 29-Jul-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice by Collins Business. I picked this book up at a used book store simply because I´m a fan of the show; but, I figured I might gleen a few words of wisdom from Mr. Rancic´s experience with Mr. Trump. I had forgotten that Bill was also a business owner prior to his appearance on the show.

I was pleasantly surprized at the insights contained in this jem of a book. The insights strike me more as wisdom I will one day recall and put into practice rather than strategies I will implement immediately.

I can see now that I will read this book a second time, and more than likely, a third. I recommend it to any small business owner.¤

2) Hardcover Book You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice by Collins Business. I was hooked on the Apprentice from the first time I saw a preview. Sadly, due to the delay in broadcasting, while doing some research on my favourite candidate from Season 1 - Bill Rancic I found out about half way through watching season 1 that he had won. I enjoyed Bill´s book but found it more of a great story that inspired me, rather than a book that gave me new direction and pointed me towards new discoveries. Reading about Bill´s company Cigars Around the World and Bill´s Cigar of the Month Club was however fabulous! I´m interested to read his second book which shows kids how they can get out there and start their own businesses.¤

3) Hardcover Book You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice by Collins Business. Bill Rancic, the dashing winner of the first season of Donald Trump´s runaway-hit reality show The Apprentice admits on the back sleeve of his book You´re Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life that he never went to business school and that he doesn´t believe that business theory can be learned from a book. What then is the affable Mr. Rancic doing offering advice on good and ethical business practices? Making the most of his fifteen minutes of fame, that´s what. In two hundred pages, he lays out the formula for his own success that led to him beat out 215,000 applicants to become the Donald´s first `Apprentice.´ The reader is privy to Mr. Rancic´s early entrepreneurial efforts, businesses that whet his appetite for something larger. Readers are also witness to his failures and mishaps that threatened to derail his ambition. Through it all, Rancic recounts the lessons he´s learned, persons he´s admired, falls from which he´s risen. He offers opinions on Kwame Jackson, his fellow runner-up to the Apprentice title, and `deceitful´ Omarosa, whom many believed was the cause of Jackson´s loss. He also details lessons he´s learned on goals, values, strategies, leadership, vision, and success. While business school grads may scoff at Rancic´s straight-shooting and simplistic advice, it is less idealistic than The One Minute Manager series of books. Here, Rancic seems to be offering advice to the everyman and everywoman looking to get a better hold on the direction and management of their lives in pursuit of their goals and dreams. The result is one that is as memorable, yet as pleasing, as a tall glass of lemonade.¤

4) Hardcover Book You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice by Collins Business. This is not the type of book I usually read, but the persona that came through was so engaging that after flipping through a few pages, I decided to buy the book.

Rancic personifies the American ideal; wholesome, grounded in a loving family that emphasizes hard work and integrity (and genetically blessed in the looks department!). This fortuitous mix of "apple pie" ingrediants have garnered him national fame, and this book outlines his experiences (along with the lessons he learnt along the way) that propelled him to be The Apprentice.

The accounts of his experiences are modern day fables, with the moral of the story encapsulated as life lessons at the end of each chapter. In addition, each chapter contains vignettes of wisdom boxed in grey shading. Many of these are commonsense admonitions we´ve been hearing all our lives to the point that they have become cliches. Rancic shows that these tried and true maxims of the American dream still apply.

I gave the book four stars for two reasons. One, the editing is sloppy. Writing a book in a conversational tone does not override the need for proper grammar. Two, Rancic´s references to himself sometimes tend to sound smarmy (as when he refers to himself as "master chef" in the pancake story from his childhood and later when he calls himself an eligible bachelor).Somehow, this takes away from his self-characterization as humble. Such relatively minor flaws aside, this is a book worth reading.
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5) Hardcover Book You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice by Collins Business. While lots of books give you high level theories on how to succeed in your business, they usually leave you hanging at the end of the reading not know what actions to take in order to apply the theories in your day-to-day operation. Rancic´s book however has a step-by-step recount of how he did it with his cigar business. You will get specific actions that you can do tomorrow to generate sales. While other books give you general directions (and lots of bullsh&ts), Rancic tells you specifically what he had done to succeed his business, what radio station he called, how much he paids for, what´s the account was, how much he charged.

If you are an entrepreneur starting out or already struggling with your small/medium size business, this book is your road map.
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6) Hardcover Book You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice by Collins Business.

*Author will be named after the final show is aired in Australia*

The winner of the hit TV show, The Apprentice, shows how anyone can become their own personal success in both business and life, using his or her  own experiences as a self-made entrepreneur, his or her work ethic, top business strategies, and lessons learned competing on the show, working for Donald Trump and winning the most talked about reality shows in years.

Foreword by Donald Trump.

Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 26-Aug-2008, 00607654109780060765415, 100-111-011-621-WAB-70B-8

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