Originally Posted by
remi
You would think that after a couple decades of conspicuous quality and safety failures.............
One wonders if the Boeing board talks about these strategic things, or just about what remaining dollars they can squeeze out before the share price runs into a brick wall............Is it really as simple as a room full of financial elite are sucking out all the money they can from the former US #1 export industry, and aside from that they don't care?
I think your last sentence is what is happening, and all I can think is that the rich super elite are draining society of money for their own ends, and sod the rest of us. In one manager's generation, they can have a very comfortable life, and the disasters they leave behind won't materially affect them in their own lifetimes.
Originally Posted by
Mr Good Cat
This is ironic, as when the great Alan Mullally took over in the 90s, one of the first things he did was put managers closer to the shop floor so they had first hand experience of any issues.......
As did Kelly Johnson of Lockheed years before that. Any engineer could walk into the office to ask about a component, any manager could walk onto the production line or the drawing office to observe and talk about the practicalities.
And that is the way to do it. once you separate managers and workers, it becomes us and them, the proles and the elite, which never works as well as everyone all working together towards a common aim.