Originally Posted by
orbitmic
Like brunos, however, and as mentioned, I totally disagree with your assessment that he stood up to the unions/staff.
Err... is that what brunos said? I understood him the other way around:
Originally Posted by
brunos
Alexandre de Juniac (...) I totally disagree that he shied away from confronting unions; and the hard strike by AF pilot last year is a proof. He might have won if the socialist government, especially a short-lived transport minister, had not assisted to torpedo his resolve by all kinds of backdoor maneuvers.
Beyond that, it seems that the three of us have different conceptions of what proportion of his ideas were good/bad and in fairness, it will probably be hard to figure out who is right or not they will likely be so poorly implemented that I'll probably think that even though they were poorly implemented, they were bad ideas anyway while you'll think that while the implementation was poor the actual idea was not, and
brunos will likely be somewhere in between
You make it sound as if I was a fan of AdJ ;-) Which I am not, I am just saying that he has achieved some things (less debt, more customer focus, digital, an - albeit vastly insufficient - lower cost structure), and had the right intention for some others but then he didn't have the strength and/or he was undermined and/or the organization made a mess of it (PERFORM restructuring program, LCC strategy). My central phrase was that he didn't do the wrong things, but to be a good CEO he would have needed to do more of the good things. PHG did the wrong things (no customer focus, strategic errors in network planning such as BdP and price strategy, more debt, etc)
I guess that the ultimate question is: if AdJ had stayed for another 2-3 years, would he have turned AF around, and my personal opinion is that he would not have and that he has not even planted the seeds of profitability
I appreciate your point - but would he have not gotten anywhere because he was doing the wrong things or just not enough of the good things?
Whatever it is, AFKL is still in a very difficult spot. And I can understand his frustration with people who refuse to see that and refuse to address that.