switching to the enemy
2 MORE DAYS TO SCHOOL!nervewracking but i shall stop elaborating on it until after the 1st week.
have been watching this bbc series about entrepreneurship + reality show combined.sounds like another reality show gimmick but its by a rather educational source and hence, it has been proven to be really interesting & amusing at times.Its called ‘dragons’ den’ & joshua was the person who introduced the show to me hehe.(maybe we are starting to think alike in certain aspects)..To be able to pitch a business idea really requires more than a good marketing strategy, and this has made me admire the management & technical skills that businessmen out there in the marketplace have. its just crazily expansive!they need the financial backing, detailed expenditure, a good vision, a thorough understanding of the target market, amongst so many other things.
enough about the academics, now on the amusing side. the sole lady businesswoman on the panel has amused me to a great extent, honestly. even as a female myself & an admitted business noob, i fail to see how she has been able to run a business successfully when she has proven to contradict herself on so many accounts!!yes intuition(and the female one especially ahah) & the benefit of being able to work with a person you’re comfortable with is a definitely a bonus, i dont understand why those factors preside over those that are more quantitative & objective..i think that only enforced a great deal about gender stereotypes sigh.
On the contrary to what you said, the dragon lady was business-shrewd. In fact, the part where you mentioned that she “contradicted herself on many accounts” was a kind of business dealing. She was bargaining for the best deal out of the $75,000 investment. firstly, she started with trying to recruit the 2 potential successful people with $75,000 and to create as many products as possible, for her and for life. If the business turns to be successful, she will be collecting the same amount of dividends and profits as the other 2, given the one-third split in the shareholding. The proposed deal was luckily called off. Then she came up with a second offer, in which she lowered her demand to just having a collaboration the particular product they presented but in the similar split of one-third. It is normal deals are not agreed on the first offer.
I dont really question her bargaining tactics because i agree that deals often go through negotiation & that would not be considered as a contradiction!My opinions were not written solely based on the above episode but the impression she gives throughout the entire series in general.