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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]
Maybe they just need a CEO who doesn't spent 65 billion dollars on stock buybacks so that he can reach his bonus incentive.
It's not only Boeing, add the suppliers base to the need of having engineers as their CEO.
Love how Boeing top execs fly in Bombardier aircraft. What do they know we don’t?
A perfect world would be a great bean counter that knew which end of a shovel is the handle. Just because you can pass tests doesn't mean you're ready for the world you chose. Boots on the ground is still the best way to understand how to grow. And with Boeing they have to dig out of a hole to consider climbing back to the top.
It's possible that the top person doesn't have to be an airplane person, but the person most responsible for getting airplanes out the door must be, and the corporate leadership has to respect the position.
Back when General Motors was a good company that's how it worked, as envisioned by Alfred Sloan. The chief executive ran corporate headquarters and looked after the finances. The division heads were all car people, who understood production and sales. Nobody at corporate told the divisions what to build or how to build it, but they did hold the division presidents responsible for financial success of their division. You can read John DeLorean's book "On a clear day, you can see General Motors" for how this was supposed to work, and some examples of how this was breaking down in the 70s.
Of course every company is run by bean counters, lawyers, and financial manipulators these days. If it's not it already got LBOed by some Wall Street operation that was run by bean counters, lawyers, and financial manipulators.
Back when General Motors was a good company that's how it worked, as envisioned by Alfred Sloan. The chief executive ran corporate headquarters and looked after the finances. The division heads were all car people, who understood production and sales. Nobody at corporate told the divisions what to build or how to build it, but they did hold the division presidents responsible for financial success of their division. You can read John DeLorean's book "On a clear day, you can see General Motors" for how this was supposed to work, and some examples of how this was breaking down in the 70s.
Of course every company is run by bean counters, lawyers, and financial manipulators these days. If it's not it already got LBOed by some Wall Street operation that was run by bean counters, lawyers, and financial manipulators.
geek /gēk/
noun
1. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
3. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
That being said, I am not sure an "airplane geek" is the best choice for the new CEO of Boeing.
noun
1. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
3. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
That being said, I am not sure an "airplane geek" is the best choice for the new CEO of Boeing.