> "When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm." - CEO Harry Stonecipher
Amazing how that one worked out.
Amazing how that one worked out.
> "When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it's run like a business rather than a great engineering firm," he said. "It is a great engineering firm, but people invest in a company because they want to make money."
* https://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-0402290256feb29-story.htm...
The Boeing headquarters was moved from Seattle to Chicago around 2001:
* https://hbr.org/2001/10/inside-boeings-big-move
> In a 2019 article, Jerry Useem criticized Boeing's move to Chicago, suggesting that by "isolating" the Boeing management from its engineering and manufacturing staff, the company discounted its former engineering-led corporate culture in favor of a management style run by MBAs instead of engineers.[7]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Building#Criticism
In 2022 it moved again, from Chicago to the DC-area (Virginia):
* https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/05/boeing-to-move-headquarters-...
Both moves seem quite symbolic to me.
If it were up to me I'd just put the engineers that made amazing flying machines back in charge and phase out McDonnell Douglas's culture.
Is that possible ? Tribal knowledge is probably lost, and those great employees have probably moved on or retired.
So, you know, expect cuts to resolve that one.