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Best get the orders

18th Aug 2009
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My plans failed, yet again.

Really good management meeting this morning. There's a general feeling of buoyancy. We could report an upturn in enquiries (and more, see what follows), debt pretty much OK - and being well managed where not, considerable interest in us innovating, staff pretty happy and turnover usurprisingly low, which tends to help morale, and and least enough profit to keep people happy. I'd say that's the best collective feeling for some time, and not just because most had been on holiday recently.

And even as we were concluding he meeting a request for a big contract tender came in. It's from a facilities manager - which we don't usually like, but the estate is just too good to ignore. As usual, too little information was provided for our liking, and as usual far too little time - which always worries me that either a) these people are not under control or b) we're just making up weight in the bidding process but either way it was decided by a combination of all those present that this was one we should pull out stops to try to win.

Newc is managing. AM is compiling. East and Hitchin have to input. North is wholly unaffected. And we have damn all time to do it.

I'm keeping a weather eye on it. This is by agreement. Someone has to stand back and make sure that at the end of the day collective enthusiasm to win does not result in a silly bid being presented. Those with long memories will recall that this happened here once, with near disastrous results. It's not going to happen again.

But this meant my afternoon meetings were foreshortened, and I had to defer looking at premises. Oh well, best get the orders.

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