The Apprentice, sponsors, and event managers  I missed the
latest "Apprentice" episode, but from this post on E-Venting, it
sounds like once again The Donald used event management as the
task to set all those wannabes at each other's throats. It also
sounds like one of the groups ran into a pretty common problem:
Sponsors who want something that goes against the grain of the
event. As the author notes,      Sponsor concessions like this
in our industry result in unqualified speakers on stage,
inappropriate content, too dense an agenda without enough
networking time, and the diversion of resources away from the
show's objectives, and towards a sponsor's.  And it happens all
the time. I like his suggestion that every sponsor should have
to manage an event before they could sponsor one, but it'll
never happen. Short of that, I believe it's up to the event
manager to explain why a certain move would run counter to the
event's goals, how it would have the opposite effect than the
one the sponsor is looking for, an