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...working 60-to-80-hour weeks by calling them all managers. They're in Disneyland, but his spell can go only so far." The former executive asserts that People's management is not nearly as democratic as Burr says. "There's only one way to do things at People Express, and that's Don Burr's way," says he. "Not only does Burr dislike being second-guessed, he dislikes being first-guessed...
Buying Frontier puts People Express in a nose-to-nose confrontation with Continental, which has an important base in Denver. It pits Burr against a former colleague turned rival: Frank Lorenzo, the chairman of Continental's parent company, Texas Air. In the 1970s, before leaving to found People Express, Burr was Lorenzo's second in command at what was then called Texas International. The two men were once very close friends, but they now have colliding ambitions...
...tidy town of South Windsor, Conn., the boy saw his local Congregational church as the most admirable kind of organization. It was free and feisty, yet disciplined in its work. Burr instead embarked on a career that led him to found a free and feisty airline, People Express...
Distantly related to Aaron Burr, who was Thomas Jefferson's Vice President when he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, the People Express chairman was a brash achiever from the start. His father was an M.I.T.-trained engineer and his mother a social worker, and young Burr remembers going to the neighborhood drugstore to admire not only its candy counter but also the proprietor's efficient storekeeping methods. In high school Burr sang in the barbershop quartet and played saxophone in the band. He went in for varsity soccer, basketball and baseball, and proceeded straight to the expert slope...
...quit Texas International in January 1980 to start his own airline. "He's absolutely fearless," a member of People's board of directors observes. "He takes business risks that are unbelievable." As he assembled People Express in Newark, the new boss used Army-style screening tests to make sure job applicants had the same daring spirit that he did. By November 1980 Burr had gathered together a band of renegades who were attracted by People's you're-the-boss structure. They included a flight scheduler and a personnel manager. The new company issued stock, raising enough cash...