Comment Re:Boeing needs to reinvent itself (Score 1) 119
They need to expunge the mcdonnell douglas culture, bring everything back to Seattle, and be a company making really cool flying machines again, damn the cost. Make it engineering led with a focus on safety, bean counters be damned
The huge problem with the MBA/Accountant culture is they lose sight of the prime focus, which is to make good planes in this case.
They look at themselves as the purpose of the company. The planes are now an unfortunately expensive things that are built to serve the MBA's and accountants and shareholders.
But if you make a good and safe plane, the sales and profits will tend to take care of themselves.
Blaming this on MBA/Accountant culture is a fallacy. A good businessman/woman realises what the core factors are that are essential to making a business profitable and that profit is not the only measure of success. In this case it is above all safe aircraft. Boeing, Airbus, they all stand and fall with their safety record. Anybody who forgets that is a poor MBA/Accountant/Business-person. The problem with America’s business community is that it seems to think Gordon Gekko is someone to emulate.