Former GM Exec; A lesson for UniCAL mgmt?
07-06-2011, 08:54 AM
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Former GM Exec; A lesson for UniCAL mgmt?
Former GM Vice Chair Blames ?Management Incompetence? ? Not UAW ? for Detroit?s Demise - Yahoo! Finance
Unions aren't the problem. The penny-pinching, micromanagers are. These are people who don't have a vested interest in the company or the aviation industry in general. When executives can come from a law firm or oil company to run an airline then leave to say run a car company to leave that company to run a fast food restaurant shows they aren't in this for long term with any of the interest or passion that career employees are. Would be great if an airline board would put some effort into promoting or hiring those who have aviation in their blood to run the airline long term as opposed to seeking to put money in their wallets. Airlines are becoming the next get-rich-quick scheme for any executive interested in securing his/her retirement future.
Over the course of his career, "management became way too scientific, B-school oriented; way too cost focused; and it was almost considered childish to be to be enthusiastic about automobiles," Lutz explains to Aaron Task in the accompanying clip.
Lutz says auto executives worried too much about hitting the numbers and not enough about creating a product consumers wanted to buy. "That is a fundamentally flawed approach," he blames on American business schools. The "over-fascination" and "over-focus on the numerical side of the business" is endemic in U.S. business and has resulted in public cynicism," Lutz says. "The American public is sick of Wall Street, the American public is sick of American business, is sick of job outsourcing, is sick of the loss of our industrial base." (See: Bring It Home! "No Excuse" Not to Manufacture in U.S., Bob Lutz Says)
Lutz says auto executives worried too much about hitting the numbers and not enough about creating a product consumers wanted to buy. "That is a fundamentally flawed approach," he blames on American business schools. The "over-fascination" and "over-focus on the numerical side of the business" is endemic in U.S. business and has resulted in public cynicism," Lutz says. "The American public is sick of Wall Street, the American public is sick of American business, is sick of job outsourcing, is sick of the loss of our industrial base." (See: Bring It Home! "No Excuse" Not to Manufacture in U.S., Bob Lutz Says)
07-06-2011, 09:17 AM
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Former GM Vice Chair Blames ?Management Incompetence? ? Not UAW ? for Detroit?s Demise - Yahoo! Finance
Unions aren't the problem. The penny-pinching, micromanagers are. These are people who don't have a vested interest in the company or the aviation industry in general. When executives can come from a law firm or oil company to run an airline then leave to say run a car company to leave that company to run a fast food restaurant shows they aren't in this for long term with any of the interest or passion that career employees are. Would be great if an airline board would put some effort into promoting or hiring those who have aviation in their blood to run the airline long term as opposed to seeking to put money in their wallets. Airlines are becoming the next get-rich-quick scheme for any executive interested in securing his/her retirement future.
Unions aren't the problem. The penny-pinching, micromanagers are. These are people who don't have a vested interest in the company or the aviation industry in general. When executives can come from a law firm or oil company to run an airline then leave to say run a car company to leave that company to run a fast food restaurant shows they aren't in this for long term with any of the interest or passion that career employees are. Would be great if an airline board would put some effort into promoting or hiring those who have aviation in their blood to run the airline long term as opposed to seeking to put money in their wallets. Airlines are becoming the next get-rich-quick scheme for any executive interested in securing his/her retirement future.
07-07-2011, 07:11 AM
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Well numbers today throughout the system could show a problem. We are negative FOs for all the open trips on the 8th of July. Don't know about the captain's side, but scheduling will probably need to be creative to get the trips covered again.
07-07-2011, 01:36 PM
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But that's just it. Scheduling gets creative, throw in an oppourtunist and the flight goes. That's the only metric they give a **** about. They don't care how scheds gets the body, only that they do.
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