Sure Touch in Testing Times Saturday Interview Saturday Interview Tom Walls Tom Walls for the Head of Agilent in West Lothian, It's the Personal Not the Corporate That Really Counts, Discovers Mark Smith
The Herald › November 12, 2005
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TOM Walls, the recentlyappointed head of US giant Agilent Technology's West Lothian operation, may end up having to wield the jobs axe on close to half of the plant's 900 staff - but he still comes across as a man of the people.
That impression has little to do with the barely perceptible twang of a Northern Irish accent - and even less to do with the fact that he was once a neighbour of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, Ireland's most famous living poet - but almost everything to do with Walls's overriding attitude to the way business is done in the world of GBP10m-plus deals.See the full content of this document
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Sure Touch in Testing Times Saturday Interview Saturday Interview Tom Walls Tom Walls for the Head of Agilent in West Lothian, It's the Personal Not the Corporate That Really Counts, Discovers Mark Smith
The fact that Walls rarely wears a tie and appears most comfortable in his open-neck denim shirt adds to the down-to-earth appeal - and perhaps disguises the stress that almost certainly accompanies a high-level position such as his.
"In the real world, companies don't do business with companies, " said Walls, 44, who was promoted to site manager at the S...See the full content of this document
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