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> Experts say that the root of Boeing’s present troubles is a longstanding culture issue. Over the years, the company’s top decision-makers went from detail-ori
by BLKNSLVR 3y ago
> Experts say that the root of Boeing’s present troubles is a longstanding culture issue. Over the years, the company’s top decision-makers went from detail-oriented engineers to slick suits with MBAs.
Same story as a million other places, but a million other places don't have people's lives depending on their hardware (and software). I (vainly, naively) hope the decision makers are held to account for their failures and class actions from families of the 346 people who have died as a result of management-directed shortcuts set a precedent that's a resounding multi-decade influential disincentive.
Great barb at the end:
“The big criticism is that they’re solely focused on finance, but they’re not even good at that,”