This week on the Apprentice the candidates were sent off to Hamburg to sell crisps by British manufacturers to the German market.
One of the many things that surprises me when I watch the Apprentice is just how shockingly ignorant the contestants, supposedly some of the best brains in Britain, are.
This week's Apprentice clearly showed the need of any good business leader to always have a good overall view of everything. The task was simple, bake something and sell as much of it as possible to corporate and individual client's.
Following the firing of Dan Harris last week the teams competing to be Lord Sugar's "Apprentice" appeared to shy away from the dictatorial manner of Mr Harris, with varying degrees of success.
Otto von Bismarck, the famed Chancellor of 19th century Germany, is famously said to have remarked that in life there are two things that it is better not to know how they are made: laws and sausages. Watching the first episode of the new series of "The Apprentice" I can't help but feel the old man was right.