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Re:Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees t... by fsh on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:04PM (#25678235)
He only became CEO in 2015. His handling of the Max crashes was shameful, but you can't blame him for Boeing's long-term strategy faults.
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Re:Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees t... by astrange on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:28PM (#25680238)
It seems like the problem with Boeing is that they acquired a failing company (McDonnell-Douglas), but then kept all the executives and let them run Boeing, even though they'd just ruined the last company.

Maybe they preferred that over letting some pleb engineer into the executive aristocracy.

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Re:Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees t... by sseveran on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:46PM (#25679313)
Oh, I don't blame him at all. A commercial airliner is a decade long project to undertake. However its clear he was not the leader to lead a company through a crisis.
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