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Old 14th Jan 2012, 20:03
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Wrong again. Dumb and dumber were the fall guys in the sense that there is always an 'accountable manager' for when something goes pear shaped. These two were the accountable managers. Every airline structure is stacked so that the CEO is distanced from accountability, in other words his head doesn't get chopped off when any other part of the organization screws up. The fact that a CEO has structured fall guys does not mean that those lower level managers are or have been deliberately 'set up' to fail. 'Set up' and 'fall guy' are certainly two different entities in a business. However in fairness to Yarra it is quite easy to combine the two when necessary and set up a manager to fail, I've seen that on a number of occasions. But in this particular case in Vietnam the entire debacle occurred because of a lack of thinking, understanding of business and culture, strategy and planning by the top echelon at Team Rat. Dumb and dumber were not part of that management level.
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