When Boeing flew off course ... and staff lost trust

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Two very interesting articles on the problems at Boeing. One, from The Atlantic in November, suggests that the plane manufacturer’s problems began long ago. It argues that the McDonnel Douglas reverse takeover (McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing’s money, went the joke) saw Boeing’s culture change from an engineering company to a finance-focused one. Added to the decision to move its headquarters some 1,500 miles away from its aircraft manufacturing and engineers, and the company became even more divorced from ...