A perfect example of Management bullshit

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:12 pm

FatBastad wrote:

Dear All,

As I arrived in the office this morning my thoughts were full of the events of the last two days during which I held AMEC’s first management conference since I joined the company last year. Held in a hotel close to Heathrow Airport, helping to keep travel time and costs low, the participants included the senior leadership team and around 50 senior managers, operational and functional, from around the company.

Against a conference theme of ‘Making it Happen’ the focus was squarely on the future of AMEC, so the Built Environment leadership decided it was not appropriate for them to attend. My objectives for the conference were to ensure that everyone understood and committed to:

• The goals, priorities, strategy and the path forward
• Working together to action those priorities and deliver results
• The consequences if we do not turn AMEC around.

Using electronic voting we were able to gain instant feedback to some of the presentations and also to test the mood, understanding and alignment of the audience. For example it was interesting for me to note that at the beginning of the conference not everyone in the room felt fully up to speed with the strategy announcement we made back in December. So it was important to overcome that by focusing on clear priorities for 2007, discussing the simple steps we need to take to achieve them and then to also look ahead at what comes next.

The good news is that by the end of the conference everyone understood, agreed with, and was fully behind the priorities for 2007. More than that, there was a strong sense of excitement and common purpose in moving forward. We each came away knowing what we need to do and strongly committed to working together to ‘Make it Happen’.

Much of the feedback I have received since the conference has focused on how good it feels to be part of the wider AMEC community and looking forward to helping each other to achieve the priorities set , “the three continuing businesses will be united and aligned through shared challenge and opportunity” and, “it is great to see everyone pulling in the same direction”.

The priorities are focused and clear and your managers will start to share the substance of them with you once the presentation materials have been distributed. In the meantime I summarise them below:

• Exceed the 2007 forecast
• Deliver our Step Change programme
• Exit non-core businesses
• Tackle legacy issues

It is vital that we all understand and share the passion and determination for delivering the goals for 2007 as we will all need to play our part in making it happen.

‘Making it Happen’

This is now our new internal theme, reflecting the challenging time ahead of us and the kind of culture we want to achieve; brave, fast moving, collaborative, results-driven and with an air of excitement about it. Shaping AMEC will over time disappear and while a great deal of excellent work has come out of it, I think that now is a good time for us all to move on, putting our energy and passion behind ‘Making it Happen’.

Sale of non core businesses

In the meantime, I am pleased to say that we have made some progress on our priority to exit the non-core businesses, having now appointed financial and legal advisors. We are now working hard on the preparation of the Information Memoranda to get the process moving as soon as possible. The final thing I have to tell you about on this subject this week is that we have now had more than 50 expressions of interest in these businesses, an extremely encouraging sign.

Relocation of PLC offices

As you know Step Change is about cutting costs and becoming more efficient. As part of this programme we expect that PLC, and other functional, employees who are currently working from our Carter Lane and Sandiway offices in the UK will be relocating short distances to take up space in existing accommodation within the operations. This is a significant step in using our resources more wisely and cost efficiently.

Samir Brikho
Chief Executive

We get this shiit once a week. Oh.....and he is a swedish raghead. rolfl

Thanks for that, but I'll never get the five minutes it took me to read that tripe back, will i?

nick · **Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:45 pm

i'm not reading all that shite

poolpower · **Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:55 pm

i have read it
and have some questions for some of those that this is supposed to reach
Mr Dibbs
are you inspired by it
do you not agree wholeheartedly with the content
are you striving to reach those goals set out
are you as committed as your middle management leader
and last but not least
was it through choice that you did not attend
or where you ignored totally

Spender · **Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:58 pm

Not one mention of estimating eh?? Bastards!! :evil:

No wonder you're pissed off with them. Anyone'd think that the estimators were just a set of idle moaning bounders that just spend all day fannying about making paper aeroplanes and fucking about on the web, drinking coffee and debating what sarny to have every hour on the hour.

Fukcing AMEC eh?? Don't know which side their breads buttered. :roll:

Salty · **Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:19 pm

nick wrote:

i'm not reading all that shite

me either Nick
I'm orf down the park now...

poolpower · **Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:20 pm

that is a good career move for someone your size
telling porkies

nick · **Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:27 pm

Cornelius Atweasle wrote:

nick wrote:

i'm not reading all that shite

I bet you read the Hartlepool Mail. :wink:

I don't actually

I'm a guardian reader

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36399

The whole statement can be shortened to.....'say goodbye to salary increases'.... :evil:

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2007 7:26 pm

Which poolie can't be arsed to read all that?

\o/

Spender · **Posted:** Sat Feb 03, 2007 3:34 am

FatBastad wrote:

I work for the part of AMEC that AMEC no longer want.
:

Work????????? :shock:

No you don't!!! :laugh:

A perfect example of Management bullshit

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