Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens

Re:Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens by AnimalMuppet on Monday December 23, 2019 @12:35PM (#21865283)

Hmm. There's been a lot of talk here about the Boeing culture vs. the Lockheed culture, and how the Lockheed culture took over after the merger. Yet the CEO was a Boeing guy, not a Lockheed guy.

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Re:Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens by Rebelgecko on Monday December 23, 2019 @01:04PM (#21865560)

Boeing and Lockheed aren't merged as companies, they're only combined for building launch vehicles. They created ULA as a joint venture. It was a weird situation where it made sense for both companies— Lockheed basically lost all of their trade secrets to Boeing after they did a crazy amount of industrial espionage. After a few Boeing employees went to jail, Boeing lost all of their launch contracts and were banned from bidding on any for a few years. Even after the ban ended they were in rough shape financially.

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Re:Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens by pseudalopex on Monday December 23, 2019 @01:47PM (#21866012)

Do you mean McDonnell Douglas?

Muilenberg became CEO 18 years after the merger. I wouldn't expect him to exemplify Boeing's old culture. It was also only 6 months before the first 737 MAX flight.

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Re:Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens by AnimalMuppet on Monday December 23, 2019 @01:51PM (#21866048)

Oops. Yes.

His lineage is in the Boeing culture, not the McDonnell Douglas culture.

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Re:Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens by xigency on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:06PM (#21866845)

That's true but he came from the defense side of Boeing.

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Re:Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens by pseudalopex on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:38PM (#21866574)

People can adapt to new cultures.

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