Originally Posted by
tdracer
It has to be the
right engineer. Remember, Phil Condit - who singlehandedly orchestrated this 25 year cluster-
- was an engineer that moved up through the ranks...
You are underselling the myth of Phil. By resume, Phil should have been the most successful Boeing CEO ever. He had the most robust engineering education credentials. He held all the right engineering jobs. Yet, he made some poor business decisions as CEO. Having an engineer as CEO will not inoculate Boeing against further failure.
As a college drop-out, somehow Bill Boeing managed to muddle along at the helm of his company for a decade and a half. I’m guessing he counted a few beans along the way.