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The old Boeing was founded on the explicit strategy of 'Let no advance in aviation pass us by', so an engineering culture, with hard nosed management and marketing to keep that in check.
That was replaced by a more 'shareholder value' oriented approach starting with Phil Condit. The consequences were apparent very early, seen in the wretched performance of the company on the 767 tankers for Japan and Italy.
No course corrections were ever made, just more Power Point engineering fixes.
Now we are facing the logical outcome of this change of course, a firm staffed with two decades or more of hires who have been indoctrinated with the 'shareholder value' mantra.
It will take a long time to rebuild the lost competences, especially as there is no obvious center of excellence from which a restoration could begin.