Right By Design

Chapter 11 Preventing Failure

DOI: 10.4324/9781003286066-11

John arrived in his office the next day to see that Jim Eccleston had set up another urgent meeting in the space of a few days although this time he saw that he was the only invitee. As John had an hour before the meeting, he busied himself by working on the technical content of the next Oe375 meeting. John arrived at Jim’s office a couple of minutes early for Vicky Harrison to tell him that Jim had popped down to see Numa McGovern in HR and would be back shortly. Jim arrived some 10 minutes later and in apologising to John for keeping him waiting ushered him into his office shutting the door behind him. Unlike their one-to-ones, where Jim always sat down at his table with John, this ...