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The New Boeing CEO Must Be an Airplane Geek, Not Just a Bean Counter
As Boeing prepares for a leadership change later this year, the incoming CEO faces an immense challenge: orchestrating a profound cultural shift within the company’s vast workforce of over 170,000 employees, a significant portion of whom are engineers. (www.airguide.info) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Competent and of sound mind would be the two top qualities I think would be best for this position. Considering what they've been getting for CEO's most recently.
I remember when Steve Jobs hired a bean counter from Pepsi (or somewhere) to run Apple. Nearly bankrupted Apple.
That's because the bean counter turned on Jobs and pushed him out of the company. Apple wasn't successful again until Jobs came back a decade later and pulled the same deal in reverse.
Yes, exactly, 100% agree, very similar situation
Not gonna happen. How many on the present board are aircraft geeks?
I'd rather someone who was "hands on" and not sitting in a cushy office thousands of miles from the Engineers and assembly halls.