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It's a shame in many ways because Andrew was doing an excellent job and was a very useful member of the team. |
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The truth is he's probably contributed more than anyone else in terms of sheer energy and ideas to the projects he's worked on. |
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Certainly, he was a lot more popular with the team than his predecessor, in fact he's so good with people from different backgrounds and different countries, he used to make me sick sometimes. |
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But having said that, he was less good at getting on with superiors, I mean you can't keep disagreeing with your line manager over quite basic matters. |
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It's just not on. |
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There was too much conflict. |
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The company had to choose between the two of them. |
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So he's paid the price, but he won't have any problems getting a new job. |
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Anyway Margaret won't be doing anything urgent, until they decide what to do about a new appointment. |
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She had planned a two-week break starting yesterday but now that's all been put off for two or three months. |
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Well, we knew she was a high-flyer from her previous company and she's impressed the Board with her results, especially in the last six months. |
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She can extract the main arguments from long documents in no time. |
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Other people have to study them for hours. |
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Certainly, we need more people like her at the top. |
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I didn't think it'd be this quick, but it's true that she's the person to make an impact. |
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However, it does create a few headaches for us, because the MD wants her to start at Head Office almost straight away. |
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What's happening is we're putting back the dates for the Canada Report and for the big meeting on the new training programme for four weeks by which time we hope to have somebody in the post. |
