Unless the boss can pull something out of thin air and borrow a lot of money by Friday, we'll have to go into bankruptcy and I'll have to look for other work.
When a long marriage isn't as good as it could be, the temptation can be to bail out or to sweep the issues under the carpet and settle for the status quo.
Mr Camus' experience managing the Franco-German rivalries at EADS and Airbus may help him steer Alcatel-Lucent away from its similar difficulties to become a proper global company.
That can be sustained against the induced drag of forward flight without significant loss in to vertical lift out puts to support the weight of the aircraft.