[kakwa_]

It's not necessarily a question of persons (and the CEO did a resigned after the Max crashes).

It's more a question of culture (oversimplifying, sales vs engineering) and this is harder to change most of the time. Apparently, even the Max debacle was not enough.

[aredox]

The MD "moles" managed to change the culture of Boeing pretty quickly from engineering- to sales-first. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing... https://archive.ph/vy5p7

[sushibowl]

Some of these executive quotes read (admittedly with the benefit of hindsight) like satire.

> But the nearest Boeing commercial-airplane assembly facility would be 1,700 miles away. The isolation was deliberate. “When the headquarters is located in proximity to a principal business—as ours was in Seattle—the corporate center is inevitably drawn into day-to-day business operations,” Condit explained at the time.

Oh man, wouldn't want that to happen.

> With ethics now front and center, Condit was forced out and replaced with Stonecipher, who promptly affirmed: “When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.”

Indeed.

[markdown]

> and the CEO did a resigned after the Max crashes

That was a funny one. They replaced him with his chairman... hence, more of the same.

[yencabulator]

With a 63 million golden handshake for job well done, on top of the all the money he previously made.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11893274/