Sheikh Ahmed: the man who put Dubai on the global aviation map - FT.com:
"In 1985 Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum, a Denver University graduate, was selected to start up Dubai’s Emirates Airline with $10m of government seed money.
“You rule by listening,” Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, now Dubai’s ruler, is said to have told his (younger) uncle. By all accounts Sheikh Ahmed did just that.
He learnt the rudiments of the airline industry from western expatriates – notably Tim Clark, the Emirates president – and the two of them have turned the carrier into the most disruptive force in global aviation. It has the world’s largest fleet of long-range passenger jets."
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