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' ... very often, Matt will just solve things without me getting involved or Stuart getting involved, it's just initiative really, he just picks up the phone and rings someone..if it's America, he wouldn't be fazed by ringing America or Holland, he would just ring them. Whereas Ned just never ever really understood them or never really got to grips with the business. I had Ned down in London for a few days with underwriters trying..and they took the time to go through it all with him, but I don't think he did anything. Ned is more of a technology person, he likes Windows. He came from the Research Department where you look at new products and evaluate them.

An example of Ned's..well the basic lack of commonsense with him, he just doesn't seem to think. They use Wordperfect in America whereas they use Word for Windows here. ... and Ned was developing this kind of policy statement for us here. ... Ned developed this beautiful policy statement, ... so the data can come out of the system into Word for Windows and he produced the policy and he said it's done, look at this, it looks really good. I said hang on they don't use Word for Windows in America. He hadn't thought.. he never seems to put himself in the user's position, he never thinks how would this work for me. So I have a lot of problems with him and I think that he is probably a bit demotivated. But, having said that he puts in long hours and he is keen to do well, but he always seems a bit depressed if you know what I mean, ... He is a nice guy and all that. ... He makes too many mistakes basically.'

X022 page 023.01 (tape 03.1.12) Gordan Notes/Trans/Tape 27/01/94

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