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Phase II (Sep 93 - Mar 94): Team

'Ned has now got a graduate coming onto the team who's reporting to him, producing some basic reports and in fact something he has done very well at and there is the kind of irony really, he doesn't seem to be a good team person and then you get somebody come in and he seems to be managing him really well. It's strange. Maybe he would make Team Leader, because he always reckons he should be a Team Leader, that he should have been a candidate for replacing Scott when Scott left, because he is quite good technically, and he was very disappointed that I didn't kind of promote him to S.I.A. and have him as a replacement for Scott.

But I could trust..I could send Scott anywhere in the world and he could do anything on the technical side and I would know it would get done and it would work and he'd come back and I could forget about it. But I couldn't do that with Ned, I'd have to go with him! No that's probably exaggerating, but I would not have the same confidence, it's all about confidence in people. You know, when we were in New York putting the Sybase server in, some problems came up, Scott solved them, you know..he just gets on and makes it happen. He doesn't kind of come to me and say, Oh God, we have got this this and this what are we going to do?, which is what Ned always, always seems to do, it's always a big problem, not kind of a big problem and here's the solution.'

X022 page 025.02 (tape 03.2.02) Gordan Notes/Trans/Tape 27/01/94

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