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How Boeing Went Bad As A Company

John

April 19

Boeing is the flagship of U.S. airpower and aerospace. But in recent years, its planes have fallen out of the sky. Why?

Boeing is decaying due to succession failure in engineering and on the factory floor.

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The Decay of Boeing The aircraft manufacturer is the flagship company of U.S. airpower and aerospace. Succession failure in engineering and on the factory floor now threatens its functionality. https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/p/the-decay-of-boeing

There are only two companies in the world capable of building and exporting the largest type of civilian aircraft, the "jumbo jet": Boeing and Europe's Airbus.

Since 1992, Boeing has gone from enjoying 70% market share to falling behind Airbus in orders and manufacturing.

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Manufacturing aircraft is very expensive and technically challenging.

Only about a thousand large civilian aircraft are sold every year, so margins are small despite government subsidies, unlike say cars or microchips.

Any advantage or efficiency is crucial.

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It was thus disastrous when, in 2018-19, two new Boeing airplanes crashed, killing 345 people in total.

And, since January 2024, Boeing planes have seen a series of incidents, some nearly catastrophic, including a mid-air nosedive that injured over fifty people.

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These two series of incidents are unrelated.

But both stem from succession failure: when the power and skills to succeed in a position within an organization are not passed down from one person to their successor, especially including tacit and informal knowledge.

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Succession failure in the engineering offices caused the two fatal crashes, as Boeing ended up designing and then delivering planes that, essentially, were programmed to crash themselves during a particular set of circumstances.

Which they then did, twice.

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To date, nobody has been held responsible for the series of fatal errors.

But that is because no error on its own was fatal, just the combination of them, which no engineer at Boeing recognized in time or had the authority to act on, if they did recognize it.

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Boeing is not the same company it once was.

Its non-technical managers and executives favored new factories in South Carolina rather than its core Seattle factories, where experienced workers were unionized and more expensive.

Go here to find out about them trusting the MBA mentality instead of the people who knew how to build planes, solve problems and run a company.

They got infected by DEI also and woke ruins everything it touches