' ... Stuart at the moment is aware that he is going to be given a team leader's role, he won't be promoted straight away and will take responsibility for the MO system, but at the moment he is under the impression that the accounts will be separate. But I am thinking now, I think that they are too closely linked. ... I've had a few sessions with the accountant who's come in who's supposed to be really good and a bright guy and he is, but I am not convinced that he is organised enough ... he is going to go away and produce an implementation plan ... and I am not convinced he has got the ability to do that, I don't think he is used to doing that kind of thing. ... So that's why I have put it [Accounts] under there [Multinational] as we speak, but it would be easier to split it off as a third leg. ... He [Stuart] would have a smaller team ...X022 page 014.01 (tape 02.1.02) Gordan Notes/Trans/Tape 27/01/94One of the things Kevin would prefer, is if the accountant was reporting directly to me as I think he would feel more confident if I was managing that person than if Stuart were managing him given Stuart has got all the other things on his plate. Because I can lead this essentially, a lot of this is under way, rolling like and it is the accounts side that needs to be really sorted and so if anything should take the balance of my time, it is there that I should be focussing, so if I bring it out separately then I have got a more direct control over it. I'm glad we talked, the more it sounds sensible to me. [Laughter.] I knew you'd be useful. I was saying today, it is quite good talking things through with you, because I don't actually have these conversations with anybody else, you know just standing back from it all and just thinking it through, it's actually very helpful. ... projects fail for a number of reasons but in my view the main reason they fail is poor project management. ... '
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