What follows is a comment that I wrote on inc.com's Apprentice blog:
I think that the episode provided irony and as well as a parable for small business.
Synergy was forced to find a creative way out of the domination that they were suffering. You saw how dejected and demoralized they were becoming when they saw how Gold Rush had taken a total domination of the resources that were available. I think that had Gold Rush not done such a good job of cutting them off, Synergy would have just had a less successful event (with a couple of cheerleaders).
This is a powerful lesson to small business. Sure, big business has domination of the resources for big campaigns and services. The smaller business can actually use that disadvantage to an advantage by outfoxing the large, inflexible corporations by finding creative ways to provide better value for their customers without the sexy ad campaigns.
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