The Storytellers
“A small group of Conservatives were rumoured to be planning a leadership challenge, so bad was the economic situation in their constituencies. The Labour Party hadn’t had the stomach to elect its strongest candidate as leader the previous year, opting instead for a left-wing intellectual, and a new political party – the Social Democrats – had been formed by several of its disaffected members. And as if to confirm the confusion of the times, Bobby Sands, a member of the Irish Republican Army on ...hunger strike in Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison, had been elected Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
Andrew had taken to having a Monday morning meeting with the heads of his three companies to try and get ahead of the crisis unfolding around them. Since the start of the year, each week’s sales forecast for the year had had to be revised down. Overseas customers were delaying orders, some of their domestic customers were cancelling orders and several suppliers had already gone out of business.MoreLess
Andrew had taken to having a Monday morning meeting with the heads of his three companies to try and get ahead of the crisis unfolding around them. Since the start of the year, each week’s sales forecast for the year had had to be revised down. Overseas customers were delaying orders, some of their domestic customers were cancelling orders and several suppliers had already gone out of business.MoreLess
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