There are pros and cons. Most really good technical people have no more
understanding of how to run a large corporation than the financial
people know how to engineer or manufacture. There are clearly
exceptions. At Boeing, T.A. Wilson was one who excelled as an engineer
and learned how to manage later. Phil Condit was a fine aerodynamicist
and made it to CEO and wasn't worth spit running the company. Harry
Stonecipher of MacDac turned out to be much the same. Frank Schrontz a
past CEO at Boeing was not a technical person yet learned how to deal
with the technical side of things and was a respected CEO. Too many
people get promoted because they are part of the good ol boy system
instead of being promoted for what they know.
I am open to Aerospace Management Consulting through my company, T-0
Test Support Operations.... Bring your big checkbook as my hourly
rates are significant, lol....
But for you weinees, any motorsports consulting is free....( and worth
every penny, lol)
mayf
Skip Higginbotham wrote:
> Bryan,
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> And Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, etc
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> You're probably right....we used to say that airplane people are
> needed to run airplane companies but yet the finance guys and gals
> ended up with the corporations. We can only pray that they are
> successful and the retirement benefits keep on coming.
>
> Some of us are continually available to help them.
>
> Skip
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> At 12:35 PM 11/11/2008, Bryan Savage wrote:
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>> A friend gave me a book and said it would explain why the domestic
>> auto company's are in trouble.
>>
>> The name; "On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors" by John
>> De Lorean
>>
>> It seems simple to me.
>> Financial people can't run an Auto Company any better than they can
>> run Wall Street.
>> It seems like you need car people to do the job right.
>>
>> Amazing!
>>
>> Bryan
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