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1884 points elorant | 2 comments | 23 Apr 24 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.43s | source
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wrs ◴[23 Apr 24 18:15 UTC] No.40135205[source]▶
This sounds an awful lot like the Boeing story, even including the “[engineering] class traitor” running the failing division.
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mulmen ◴[23 Apr 24 19:32 UTC] No.40136201[source]▶
Boeing was put on the path to failure by James McNerney. He was their first non-engineer MBA CEO. A literal Jack Welch apprentice. He divested Spirit and chose to build the MAX instead of the 797.

Dennis Muilenburg was an engineer and handled the MAX crisis poorly but wasn’t responsible for the decision to divest key capabilities from Boeing or to optimize short-term sales over long-term survival by building the MAX instead of a new airliner.

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1. wrs ◴[23 Apr 24 20:06 UTC] No.40136655[source]▶
Good point. But really it was Phil Condit who’s often regarded as kicking off the long slide to mediocrity with the McDonnell merger and move of Boeing HQ to Chicago. And he’s an engineer.
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2. mulmen ◴[23 Apr 24 21:15 UTC] No.40137359[source]▶
Fair point, thanks for the clarification.