CEO drama at EADS

Published 9:00 pm Sunday, June 5, 2005

I haven’t been following this closely, but this column in today’s Telegraph from London makes the internal debate over the leadership of EADS and Airbus seem juicier than the most-recent season of The Apprentice.

Key Quote: “(Noel) Forgeard is a formidable executive who has turned Airbus into the world’s biggest maker of large passenger jets, ahead of arch-rival Boeing. But his Napoleonic ambitions have paralysed both EADS and Airbus and threaten to undermine his greatest achievement.”

http://www.money.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/06/05/ccom05.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2005/06/05/ixfrontcity.html