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Diagnosing Boeing:
Causes of Culture Collapse
Before we can talk about Ortberg, we must first talk about the company
he now leads, and the scale of the problems he has inherited.
Sometimes a corporate turnaround is simply a matter of formulating and
executing a particular solution to a particular problem.
Unfortunately, Boeing’s problem is not so simple,
nor is it solvable with any single fix.
That is because Boeing's problem is essentially pathological, permeating its
entire organization.
Boeing’s particular pathology is visible across virtually every aspect of its business. You can see it in the way Boeing handled the 737 Max 8 program,
from development and construction to its reactions and responses to
multiple fatal crashes.
You can see it in Boeing’s space program, which has managed to strand a pair
of astronauts on the International Space Station by launching a leaking spacecraft. The examples are pretty much endless, as The Wall Street noted in late January:
Boeing and its supply chain have been beset by snafus—from mis-drilled holes
on 737 fuselages and production slip-ups on the 787 Dreamliner to mishaps
with the new Air Force One—which have disrupted production at several factories.
The underlying pathology behind all of Boeing’s many and varied failures
and faults ultimately stems from a common source: corporate culture.
To be more accurate corporates lack of commonsense and integrity.
Boeing’s current culture crisis has been long in the making:
Boeing survived and thrived, sustained by an engineering culture steeped in designing superior aircraft built to demanding tolerances.
Its airplanes were industry-changing…Since the mid-1990s, the company bought
out McDonnell Douglas, a domestic rival, moved its headquarters twice,
shifted some assembly to the East Coast
(which allowed the company to sidestep the unions)
and changed chief executives the way you would planes in Atlanta.
What got lost in all this shuffling is a corporate culture that once prized
engineering and safety, replaced by one that seemed to be more focused
on delivering profits over perfection.”
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The Price of Resisting Accountability—
https://youtu.be/snTaSJk0n_Y