"Leadership is all about meeting the moment," Pope told reporters on Sunday, her first press event as chief of Boeing's commercial business. Little is known of Boeing's selection process, which is heating up and is overseen by Chairman Steve Mollenknopf — also a newcomer to his post. The job comes with significant challenges: whoever takes over must stem the financial bleeding, rebuild trust with the flying public and with regulators, and rally a dispirited workforce after Boeing lurched from one crisis to the next in recent years.