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Continental Airlines: Gordon Bethune

Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz

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The Importance of Being a Mechanic

I mean, having the fact that you were a mechanic and that even as an executive in your late 40s at this point, if you had to, you could go fix a plane. So there was nothing wrong inherently about being a mechanic. If you wanted to be the CEO, you could do it. And of course, fly in the airplane kind of lets you identify with your own pilots who have that same type of airplane. They know you know. Did you ever fly a 757 or 767? Like, did you ever actually fly the plane with people on board? Well, I would invite maybe 60 of our best employees with their spouses or girlfriends. We put them up in

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