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| Topic Started: Aug 23 2005, 06:04 AM (839 Views) | |
| Fanatic | Aug 23 2005, 06:04 AM Post #1 |
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 Hometown: Gilbertsville, PA Occupation: Ad Executive Jim, 36, earned dual undergraduate degrees in graphic design and art history from Philadelphia's Tyler School of Art and spent his post-college years as a conceptual illustrator in Manhattan. He relocated to Philadelphia and started his own advertising and marketing company that targets overlooked regional venues within the city. The father of a five-year-old girl and newborn daughter, he lives with his wife in Gilbertsville, PA. When will you consider yourself "a success"? I suppose that I will consider myself a success "professionally", when I am able to fill my workdays with creatively rewarding challenges. When I am able to wake up everyday, and know that I can look forward to pushing myself to the conceptual limits of my abilities, I would feel fulfilled and successful. Personally, I feel that I am about as successful as any man could be. I have the most beautiful woman in the world as my wife, and together we have created two perfectly lovely daughters! Does it get any better? How would you describe your leadership style? My leadership style is one of hands off management. I like to get my team excited by talking about the possibilities of a project, gauge who is most excited about a particular aspect, and then... Let them go and knock everyone out of the water with their results. Managing driven, dedicated individuals, is obviously the unspoken first step of this process. Of course, if you're not managing these types of individuals, that second step of getting your team excited is that much more critical! How do you deal with personal and professional challenges? All challenges in life are the same. One needs to start every task by visualizing the ultimate goal, and imagine performing at your absolute best! The rest is just a matter of keeping yourself on that pre-imagined path until you ultimately land "the prize". What, in your opinion, is the most important quality to have in order to succeed in life and why? It sounds hackneyed, but it has been my experience that the power of positive thinking is the most important quality in order for an individual to achieve a lifetime of success. At one point or another, we are all destined to fail in some aspect of our lives. This could happen once a year, once a month or even once a day. The "failure" is not what's important. What IS important is an individual's ability to disregard the fear and disappointment of a perceived failure, and then continue to "try, try again". Success is simply never giving up! What's more important: College Education or Real World Experience? The reason why this question is never adequately resolved is obviously because world experience and higher education are intended to work in tandem toward an individual's success. For anyone to say that a college education is unimportant for success would be ludicrous, and in many ways, vice versa with the "school of hard knocks". I sincerely believe that higher education is the single most important step an individual can take before ultimately proceeding into "the real world". If you are lucky enough, or resourceful enough to make this happen. For those who can't attain that level, what you really lose is the chance to perform trial and error tasks, within the safe, controlled environment that IS the College classroom. For this reason, real world experience alone places so much more pressure and importance on one's every decision and endeavor, as you are quite literally educating yourself, while you "learn the hard way". Ultimately, all the clues for success are out there in the real world. While it's true that a college education helps you to more readily recognize those opportunities, there is no guarantee that it will. Wisdom can't bought! Have any previous Apprentice winners motivated or inspired you? I admire the successes of all three of the DT Apprentices. I couldn't truthfully tell you that I would have handled myself in any similar fashion to the previous 3 winners. Everyone has his or her own path. For me, you are a winner if you stick true to who you are, whether you achieve this win, or that. How do you combine your creativity with your business savvy? Business savvy is in and of itself creative. Having a creative mind often helps with "thinking outside of the box". For example: It is often more appealing for me to take an unusual approach to a business solution, than to do the obvious! Sometimes this approach works, sometimes it backfires. Business savvy is about uncovering and/or actually MANUFACTURING your own opportunities and successes. Then knowing when to make your move! If nothing else, taking the road less traveled approach will usually get you noticed, and in an all too often mundane business world, that can only be a plus. Faves; Music: I consider music one of my hobbies. I love what has always been termed "pop music", throughout cultural American history. I love the Big Band dance music of the WWII era. Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, The Dorsey Bros.... wow! That stuff was FANTASTIC! I admire experimental pop music created by tortured souls such as John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Perry Farrell, Beck, Gibby Haines...I especially crave the less attainable electronica, and trance/techno music that is around today. Outfits like Royksopp, Telepopmusik, Bent, Daft Punk, etc. As well as hot DJs like Paul Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyk, Armand Van Helden, DJ Tiesto and Mylo. I even enjoy the well produced, top 40 pop music of today like Justin Timberlake's new album, The Black Eyed Peas & Jay Z. Books: I am not a big non-fiction reader. I take my reading as I would take medicine, to make myself better. I read biographies of great War strategists like Churchill, MacArthur, and my favorite George S. Patton! I also read self-help books on sales and business strategies. Great classics like Dale Carnegie and Harry Beckwith, which, for the most part are still topical today. TV: I, of course, love the Apprentice series! I love Survivor. Mark Burnett's reality stable really focuses on the human relationship, and the psychology between disparate individuals. I eat that stuff up! (It makes a great launching point for my real life business relationships) I enjoy Lost, and Desperate Housewives on the couch with my wife in the evenings. Curiously, these shows, while not "reality" based, deal with similar interpersonal relationships. Finally, COMEDY!!! Conan O'Brien leads the pack for my taste in humor... Guys like Sasha Cohen (Da Ali G Show) AND Conan also use humor to reveal the "Human Condition", as it were, and force people to take a closer look at themselves, and maybe laugh a little at how ridiculous we all can be at times. Movies: Not too curiously, I find all of my favorite movies revolve around the struggles of what can only be termed the "anti-hero". Movies like Fight Club, The Matrix, A Clockwork Orange, Gladiator, Miller's Crossing, Batman. They all revolve around a man outside of "normal" society, acting in ways that only outsiders can. Often with dramatically heroic and/or tragic ends! Horror, obviously somewhat fits into this genre, and is a passion as well. Perhaps my all time favorites are The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Ring, The Exorcist, 28 Days Later, frankly just about anything by Kubrick, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket. After all, wasn't The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, films' first mainstream attempt at "Reality Filmmaking"? How could I not LOVE that! 
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| Bored | Sep 3 2005, 10:01 PM Post #2 |
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AH! Woah... he's a scary one. I don't know if it's the clenched jaw, or the bad haircut, or a mixture of both, but he looks very... pissed off and poised to kill. I'm thinking that he'll be a little on the annoying side and ultimately inept, and go away fast. |
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| dfleminator | Sep 3 2005, 10:03 PM Post #3 |
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I find he gives off a Doug from Trading Spaces vibe... arrogant and "artsy" but not in the good sense of the word... |
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| lalol | Sep 24 2005, 12:05 AM Post #4 |
The kitty is... BACK!
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Oh.My.God... He looks like JONATHAN BAKER from TAR6 very very scary *shudder* |
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| Qboots | Sep 26 2005, 01:20 PM Post #5 |
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He seems a lot like the Evil Dr. Will from season 2 of Big Brother. He doesn't really appeal to me (nor did Will) but he knows he's playing a game, and he has a strategy in mind. I don't like the rest of his team either. I hope they lose every challenge. |
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| jonnysbandit | Oct 4 2005, 02:38 PM Post #6 |
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Wow, it seems like Jim has some issues with control! I watched this show last night for the first time and although I wanted to smack Dawn, Jim's constant head shaking and interrupting made me crazy!!! |
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| jonnysbandit | Oct 26 2005, 12:34 PM Post #7 |
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Honestly I'm surprised he's still in the game... |
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| dfleminator | Oct 26 2005, 04:44 PM Post #8 |
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I'm quite shocked too... he's on Martha's radar for the rest of the game, and if he wins, it would be a terrible move for her. |
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| Robyn123 | Dec 22 2005, 12:55 AM Post #9 |
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Jim was the highlight of the show! My husband looked forward to seeing him each week. He would be the associate that would keep you working though the hard times, as he adds brightness to any situation. He worked hard when the task called for it, but also added some light to every situation. Why so much bad comments? He is the person that people flock to. Everyone that watched Martha Apprentice said they LOVED him. He really is a rare, awesome guy!! Way to go Jim, DON"T CHANGE a thing!
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| dfleminator | Dec 22 2005, 06:07 AM Post #10 |
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Well I have to disagree with you, because I did NOT love him, and it seems none of the other people in this thread did. I agree with Martha that he was acting. I also feel he was more disruptive than anything, and I'm still not sure what he (or anyone on Bethenny's team) did last night... although that seems to be mostly Bethenny's fault. |
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| Robyn123 | Dec 22 2005, 10:15 AM Post #11 |
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May be so....  ...but he as sure funny!!
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| jonnysbandit | Dec 22 2005, 10:31 AM Post #12 |
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I agree with you D, I couldn't STAND Jim. He was so argumenative and caustic! He seemed like a really toxic personality to me. |
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