Quote of the day 27th September 2016
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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Now I work as a manager in the telecoms dept, I know this is something you will know a little something about.
So do you hold a meeting about doing a job in a meeting room? - NO! - You hold it in the switch room where you want the work done.
when you are trying to get a group of different people from different contracting companys to work together, do you have a meeting in a meeting room? - NO! - hold it in the canteen and buy the coffee, you will get so much more from everyone there.
Its people who book up meeting rooms to hold a meeting for the sake of having a meeting that are the problem, you even find people who book up a meeting room, to have a meeting to organise a meeting.
So i guess the way I work I do quite enjoy meetings, because I tend to invite the right people to the right place, and we just sort of 'get things done'