Quentin Shears
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Quentin Shears, 48, is a partner in Newt UK, a Hertfordshire-based quantity surveyor that its US owner, construction giant Gator Corp, has never been quite sure what to do with. Quentin has recently been making excellent progress in his anger management sessions, which he was obliged to take after several ...
CommentQuentin Shears: Working women
Quentin Shears, 48, is a quantity surveyor at Newt UK, the Hertfordshire outpost of US multinational Gator Corp. Quentin rarely watches Sky Sports
CommentQuentin Shears: The great stadium dispute
Quentin receives an invitation from Gator Corp to build a croquet venue - then demolish it
CommentQuentin Shears: Secret Santa
Quentin Shears is a senior partner at quantity surveyor Newt UK, the Hertfordshire outpost of US multinational GatorCorp. As the year grinds to an end, Quentin usually finds himself undergoing intensive anger management therapy merely to make it through the Christmas party season. This year, however, has found him in ...
CommentQuentin Shears: Evolve or die!
For almost my entire career, we quantity surveyors have been told that we must evolve or die. This has never really bothered me, although I鈥檇 hate to think of the chain ending with me and Richard Steer.
CommentQuentin Shears: How to cut a school by 40%
鈥橲uddenly I knew how George Osborne felt when he got his hands on the communities department payroll鈥�
CommentQuentin Shears: Thinking inside the box
I鈥檝e never been entirely sure what management consultancy is. My only hope was that nobody else knew either
CommentQuentin Shears: Can you erect a tent without pegs?
The cladding contractor hit her brother with a tent pole. 鈥機hildren! You can鈥檛 fight. This is an NEC contract!鈥�
CommentQuentin Shears: A night to remember
鈥橭n a river there is no escape. A boat party is where corporate hospitality meets factory farming鈥�
CommentQuentin Shears: Free schools and the Continuity PTA
鈥橳hey鈥檙e already looking at sites, trying to work out how many kids you can fit in an abandoned Zavvi鈥�
CommentQuentin Shears: Tinker, tailor, soldier, quantity surveyor
鈥淏ut is there anything from a meeting of our partners that would interest the Kremlin?鈥�
CommentQuentin Shears: The winning mentality
鈥淲e should put the usa game behind us. We can鈥檛 do any worse against Algeria鈥�
CommentQuentin Shears: The wages of synergy
鈥淯sually, rebranding takes months, but the stationer鈥檚 on Potter Street had a half-price offer on business cards鈥�
CommentQuentin Shears: The Americano takeover
鈥橶e need to talk about rebranding - you have a brunch meeting at three鈥�
CommentQuentin Shears: The kingmaker
鈥橳he fresh croissants are, I feel, a big, open and comprehensive offer鈥�
CommentQuentin Shears: Golf rage
Simon decided golf would be more fun than doorstepping voters trying to watch Britain鈥檚 got talent鈥�
CommentQuentin Shears: The Dubai polar bear sanctuary
鈥橧 get the Oxford Anthology of Business poetry off the shelf. It鈥檚 time for the big guns鈥�
CommentQuentin Shears: academy@grimston
鈥淭he secret to a healthy team spirit, I have discovered, is a shared vested interest鈥�