More to your point, it's isn't the pilot's responsibility to properly manage, staff, and lead a company. The point at which a company's labor pool is more tallented at running a company than the management is, there is a serious problem. Pilots are a unique kind of unionized work force. Are there any other kinds of heavy machine operators that are generally, well educated in both business and the machine they operate? I can't think of any.
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pete2800
How do we move forward? I hate to say this, but eventually you just have to let management fail. As a work group, it's in our nature to identify threats and try to prevent high-risk consequences. However, there comes a point at which you've given management the tools they've asked for, but they're not solving the problem, and the tools they asked for were the wrong thing for the job in the first place. What can a pilot do about it? Honestly, the answer is "nothing." If they learn fast enough for the company to survive, that's great. If they don't, there's nothing you could have done to fix it anyway.