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You're Fired! Success Tips and Tricks from Celebrity Apprentice

The latest season of Celebrity Apprentice recently completed and Leeza Gibbons won the $250,000 grand prize for her charity, Leeza’s Care Connection, a charity to support Alzheimer’s patients, those with other chronic illnesses, and their caregivers. If you have never watched this show, that it is a game designed to look and feel like a business, under the watchful eye of Donald Trump, who can terminate those who are not performing. Much like in the real world of work, there are secrets to success. Winning Celebrity Apprentice is like winning the world of work and workforce development.   Clearly Defined Roles based on Strengths - The best project managers knew the job that needed to be done and they knew the strengths and weaknesses of their team. The best project managers had people work on tasks that met their strengths.   This was key to winning a project. If the wrong people were doing the job, it would lead to failure. If a team had a great team member, but was...