Re:Boeing Finds More Misdrilled Holes on 737 in Latest Setback
by bee_rider on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:21PM
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Interesting that Grove’s company would go on to provide some of the best evidence that putting an engineer at the wheel is no magic bullet.
Re:Boeing Finds More Misdrilled Holes on 737 in Latest Setback
by galleywest200 on Monday February 05, 2024 @05:36PM
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It is not about them being better leaders, but the engineer (hopefully) considering the efficacy of their design over bean counting.
Re:Boeing Finds More Misdrilled Holes on 737 in Latest Setback
by shiroiuma on Monday February 05, 2024 @11:15PM
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Having an engineer as CEO can get you dumb decisions like thinking the Pentium4 Netburst architecture and dependency on expensive RAMBUS memory is a great idea.
Re:Boeing Finds More Misdrilled Holes on 737 in Latest Setback
by shiroiuma on Monday February 05, 2024 @11:14PM
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>The myth that engineers make better leaders may have originated with Andy Grove.
Quite possible, and what's really ironic is that Grove's successor, Craig Barrett (who helped start the company with Grove), also an engineer, was a terrible CEO. He was the one who made a bunch of bad moves: P4/Netburst + RAMBUS, Itanic, refusing to adopt amd64 or make their own x64-64 ISA before AMD, etc. The company did poorly under his leadership and only turned around when his successor, Paul Otellini (an accountant IIRC) took over and moved to the "Core" CPU architecture.
The myth that engineers make better leaders may have originated with Andy Grove.
In truth, there is no evidence for the claim. Jack Welch was as much an engineer as an asshole.