9 thoughts on “Boeing”

  1. But it was May 2001. And Boeing’s leaders, CEO Phil Condit and President Harry Stonecipher, had decided it was time to put some distance between themselves and the people actually making the company’s planes.

    Not a single mention of the unions that chased Boeing HQ and some of their manufacturing out of Seattle.

    1. Yep. And landed a bunch of it in Union safe South Carolina. I’m of the opinion that the great aerospace depression of the early to mid 90s not only laid off something like 650,000 aerospace workers but also was instrumental in turning California and Washington blue. 250,000 people were laid off in deep red Orange County Ca alone. Still waiting for someone to write a meaningful history on that event.

  4. It is always a disaster when a company in a leading edge tech business gets run by suits and bean counters.

    2. General Electric is lucky its still around after the decision to turn it into some kind of financial company that built things on the side.

  5. This is normal corporate evolution. Engineers and entrepreneurs start building something. It sells. The company grows. The bean counters start making the decisions. The core product suffers from lack of innovation. Engineers and entrepreneurs take over and rebuild the product to something people want to buy. Lather, rinse, repeat.

  6. Let me see if I understand this correctly; McDonnel Douglas was going under, so, Boeing bought it, and took the management that had wrecked McDonnel Douglas into its own fold, so they could do the same again?

    Boeing also thought it was a good idea to put distance between management and the product by moving their head office to a city where they had exactly no facilities and thus no reason to be there?? And also have managers who don’t know engineering?

    And now, totally unexpectedly, this did not end well?

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