[Sequoyah101]

“Prince Jim”—as some long-timers used to call him—repeatedly invoked a slur for longtime engineers and skilled machinists in the obligatory vanity “leadership” book he co-wrote. Those who cared too much about the integrity of the planes and not enough about the stock price were “phenomenally talented assholes,” and he encouraged his deputies to ostracize them into leaving the company.

The guy who is now fish food thought the same thing about actual, real, experienced engineers when it came to building his little submarine coffin. Sounds like we have the same kind of guy building airplanes for public consumption at Boing [sic].

America, proving you can't just live on your past accomplishments.

[Sequoyah101]

I’ll add in closing after reading the entire article: I worked for a company whose CEO thought that experienced engineers were a dime a dozen. Just another commodity that could be bought on a street corner when the time came and fired when the time of need passed. He also thought that an MBA could manage anything. Anything at all. He was eventually proven very very wrong.

[SaveFerris]

(The guy who is now fish food thought the same thing about actual, real, experienced engineers when it came to building his little submarine coffin.)

Being arrogant at 11,500 feet deep is a very bad idea.

Demonstrably so.