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Man: It’s the first time I’ve been over there since we decided to go ahead with the expansion and I must say I was impressed with the number of really good candidates there were. It is really a good region, in terms of being able to attract and recruit the right people. I wish the same thing was true for the other branches. What I just can’t believe is that I managed to set such a bad example by arriving a while hour after we should have started. I felt like a real fool, going on about heavy traffic. When I’d never accept that kind of excuse myself!

Man: Well, the whole thing was a serious challenge. I didn’t feel up to it in the first place. It wasn’t a good time to be asked to present the new policies to the stuff.  We’ve decided to change the rules. They’d be applied in all the departments and it is believed to function well. The only thing is that the paper work was not prepared as expected and left me disoriented and underperformed in the meeting.