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After phase II (Aug 94 - Feb 95): Marine system

'The only things which can go wrong are not managing the supplier and I think we've done as best we can there so far by having a good spec, a realistic timescale and a fixed-price agreement. What I'm not happy about is the fact that I don't like..I'm not very keen on the project manager, but that's just a personal thing. I mean, everybody else is telling me I'm going over the top. I just don't like him. He's just too weak. He's basically too weak. ... They have a production director and a quality director, and the production director is a very impressive character and I said to him privately at the function the other night "I would be much happier if you were running this". We've got to really..we can let this run for a few more weeks, but if I still feel the same about him in a few weeks' time, then we've really got to tackle this, you know, bite the bullet. They agreed. ... '

X060 page 004.05c (tape 03.2.03c) Gordan Notes/Tape 14/10/94

Social influence: Individual: Ability
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