As a Boeing retiree with 38 years of expertise on the Everett Boeing plant, I recognize the editorial “Congress must force Boeing to be better” [Jan. 21, Opinion].
I disagree, nonetheless, with the concept that a change in Boeing’s management can be of little assist. Vigorous federal oversight alone is not going to repair the inner blindness of Boeing’s management.
Previous Boeing leaders comparable to Alan Mulally and Pat Shanahan had been strategic, future-oriented thinkers who totally understood the manufacturing course of and the significance of security and high quality Boeing merchandise.
The present CEO is a bean counter who doesn’t appear to grasp the complexity of the method and doesn’t dwell in Washington state, the place the majority of the work continues to be completed.
As he continues to downplay the corporate’s accountability, his board of administrators blindly follows alongside as additionally they don’t possess the related expertise.
Boeing is not going to survive below its present management. Shareholders, in addition to different Boeing supporters, ought to demand a change.
We might be lucky to have Shanahan (or somebody like him) return as CEO, a person with the requisite understanding, humility and orientation to guide Boeing again to constructing one of the best plane on this planet.
David L. Clay, Snohomish