IMO, the day Alan Mulally left Boeing was the beginning of the end of "Working Together." I'm not surprised at Boeing's current situation. Look at the KC-46's being delivered with trash, and tools left in them. It's like WTF is going on? Seems like a dire situation IMO.
I'll second that- years ago and even after I retired after /when working on 777 I had excellent communications with Alan - I'm probably only one of maybe 200 people who have personally been hugged by Alan after sending him an email on a weekend about a close friend known to Alan who was in the Hospital . Alan answered within an hour. My friend later passed and Alan attended his funeral. he always responded to direct emails and made sure that an answer was forthcoming. But that ran counter to the MDC gang in power. And as you infer- the rest is history !