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Each Tuesday he meets his deputy directors and workshop supervisors
               and engineers. At these meetings strategies were discussed.  He also had
               further private meetings and conversations and brainstorming sessions
               especially at weekends. All of these actions when combined with an
               openness and honesty in communication created a general feeling
               through all levels of the enterprise of being well informed.


                                            FIGURE 4




                                              Director




                                           Management Team




                                                Product
                            Technology          Range               Marketing




               Ivan quotes Napoleon to illustrate the cultural change he is trying to
               achieve.


                              "Every person should be a leader. Each employee should be
                              able to achieve more for themselves than they do at present."


               An appropriate quote for the circumstances in which he found himself
               might also have been:

                                     " Everything is in a state of Flux"
                                                   (Heraclitus 513 BC)
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