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Why does everyone rip on Jack Welch here? Was he ever a Boeing exec?
by AnimalMuppet 3y ago
Why does everyone rip on Jack Welch here? Was he ever a Boeing exec?
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Why does everyone rip on Jack Welch here? Was he ever a Boeing exec? He was an engineer and an exercise. There is this myth in Silicon Valley about how MBAs and engineers behave in the C suite. It’s empirically unsupported, albeit a satisfying story to tell.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoOK, but why does Welch come up so often in Boeing articles? It's like there's this meme that "What happened to Boeing is all Jack Welch's fault!" It comes up over and over and over, and from multiple authors. Why?
- toomanyrichies 3y agoJames McNerney, the CEO of Boeing who oversaw the development of the 737 MAX, was one of Jack Welch's underlings (along with eventual Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli and Welch's successor as CEO of GE, Jeff Immelt). [1][2] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McNerney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McNerney 2. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-boeing-was-set-on-the-path-to-disaster-by-the-cult-of-jack-welch https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-boeing-was-set-on-the-path...
- p_l 3y agoThe exec brought from McDonnell-Douglas, who was also an adviser to Phil Condit when certain changes (the 7E7 aka 787 program goals and planning, outsourcing strategy, HQ change) were done, and who later replaced Condit as CEO, was well known for being Jack Welch acolyte. In fact, you can find Jack Welch "acolytes" all over 1990s execs and management and even later, because he was that influential.