Taming the Many Masters at EADS

摘要

Tom Enders, the former German paratrooper who has led Airbus since 2007, loves to make a splash. To show off his military skills he once skydived off a plane's loading ramp at 10,000 feet. His disapproval of Germany's absence from the Libyan liberation campaign led Enders to quit Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic party. And last year he quipped that Boeing executives might be a bunch of dope-heads.