As they said, hes a number man, its all numbers for him and pushing those numbers to their limits, eventually though with that philosophy you eventually push those numbers too far and something happens, generally in Aviation that something could be a smoking hole in the ground. I think we're all wondering if thats what it will take for people like Alan Joyce to really wake up and smell the roses and realise the part he has played in it.
Not at all. People at that level will just shift the blame onto their opposing forces, saying it was they who caused the distractions and all the problems that the management was trying to fix.