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Fired Up!
You're Hired: How to Succeed in Life
and Business by Bill Rancic
and Business by Bill Rancic
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. P&A
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. P&A
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