Bass is a bean-counter, NOT a skilled public speaker

Why do you say he's a bean-counter? Does he have an accountancy
background, as opposed to the engineering one that Mr Boykin cites. Or
do you simply assume that anyone running a corporation must be a bean-
counter?

Although he is an engineer, Mr. Bass' background at Sony Corp. and
General Electric is managerial. It is well known that he was brought
into Piper to "slash & burn" in order to save the company.

From my corporate days in the newspaper world, we had a name for guys
like him: "hit man". These guys are brought in to do whatever it
takes to save the company, and bad things happen in his wake. (If
you're an employee; if you're an investor, he's a savior.)

Mind you, I'm not averse to ANY of this. I fully understand what it
means to run a company, and that Piper needed to be saved. If
building bizjets (or microwave ovens, for that matter) is the way out
of bankruptcy, so be it.

But then don't come to a gathering of piston single owners (I.E.: The
Cherokee Pilots Association annual convention), and trumpet the fact
that we attendees are no longer "Job One" in the company. It was in
poor taste, and made a lot of people angry -- which I'm sure was NOT
the impression Bass (or Dennis Boykin) wanted.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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www.AlexisParkInn.com
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