All articles by 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 ...
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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
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CommentQuentin Shears: The great stadium dispute
Quentin receives an invitation from Gator Corp to build a croquet venue - then demolish it
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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 ...
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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’d hate to think of the chain ending with me and Richard Steer.
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CommentQuentin Shears: How to cut a school by 40%
’Suddenly I knew how George Osborne felt when he got his hands on the communities department payroll’
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CommentQuentin Shears: Thinking inside the box
I’ve never been entirely sure what management consultancy is. My only hope was that nobody else knew either
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CommentQuentin Shears: Can you erect a tent without pegs?
The cladding contractor hit her brother with a tent pole. ’Children! You can’t fight. This is an NEC contract!’
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CommentQuentin Shears: A night to remember
’On a river there is no escape. A boat party is where corporate hospitality meets factory farming’
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CommentQuentin Shears: Free schools and the Continuity PTA
’They’re already looking at sites, trying to work out how many kids you can fit in an abandoned Zavvi’
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CommentQuentin Shears: Tinker, tailor, soldier, quantity surveyor
“But is there anything from a meeting of our partners that would interest the Kremlin?”
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CommentQuentin Shears: The winning mentality
“We should put the usa game behind us. We can’t do any worse against Algeria”
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CommentQuentin Shears: The wages of synergy
“Usually, rebranding takes months, but the stationer’s on Potter Street had a half-price offer on business cards”
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CommentQuentin Shears: The Americano takeover
’We need to talk about rebranding - you have a brunch meeting at three’
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CommentQuentin Shears: The kingmaker
’The fresh croissants are, I feel, a big, open and comprehensive offer’
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CommentQuentin Shears: Golf rage
Simon decided golf would be more fun than doorstepping voters trying to watch Britain’s got talent…
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CommentQuentin Shears: The Dubai polar bear sanctuary
’I get the Oxford Anthology of Business poetry off the shelf. It’s time for the big guns’
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CommentQuentin Shears: academy@grimston
“The secret to a healthy team spirit, I have discovered, is a shared vested interest”