The mind-set of the slick MBA's in charge of major aerospace corporations is that an engineer is an engineer - they are all the same and inter-changeable.
If one doesn't have a love of aviation, he has no business working in aviation.
Pretty much fits ay job, with the exception that in aviation, screw-ups can cost lives.
Bad engineers who love aviation don’t belong in aviation engineering either.
Accountants should never be put in charge of any company that is not an accounting firm. They have no vision for the actual business, which is the revenue side of things. Instead the only trick they know is cost cutting, even at the expense of revenue.
Working on the revenue side requires spending money and having a vision for where the company needs to go. An accountant can't do either. Any company run by an accountant is at least beginning the death process.
An inventor can advance step by step in the construction of an airplane even if he is only experimenting with sticks and scraps of metal in his own backyard. [...] If he has made a mistake in his calculations, the airplane will correct it by crashing to the ground.
Accountants should never be put in charge of any company that is not an accounting firm.
Breathes their an MBA with a soul so dead, as to think they could not squeeze 5 more basis points out of anything, including their kid’s lemonade stand.
I work in National Security and have a standard Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) chart where the customer wrote the first bullet under “Threats,” in red, bold font, and three points larger than the font of the rest of the bullets. It reads:
“An MBA in Finance”
But I'm sure they followed all the worse-than-meaningless, CYA standards written by people who don't know a microsecond from a microphone.
ML/NJ