CORRUPTION AT BOEING

I have been saying this for years.  It often came down to cost, schedule and stock holder value over quality and safety.  Similarly at the Canadian company I was just fired from.  I respected Kasra Saati and his successor because they both had integrity; but quality and safety start at the top and it filters down thru the org.

If the top is rotten (filled with yes men), then it is a hopeless battle to influence an org for good.

I always seek a nucleus of good men/women and seek to build it out until the entire org is infused with ethos.  It can take years to make meaningful headway.  One bad apple at higher levels, and the whole effort can come crashing down.

Anyway, over time, the follies of a failed attitude are made manifest as this recent Boeing article points out:

These messages refer to Boeing employees telling lies, covering up problems and treating regulators with contempt.

They reinforce the impression - already expressed vividly by whistleblowers and in Congressional hearings - that Boeing was a company that had lost its way, focused on maximising production and keeping costs down, rather than on safety.

Will all this actually harm Boeing though? It's questionable.

The company's reputation has already been savaged; it may be calculating that it now has little to lose by being transparent about past failures.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/business-51058929

The secret is to refuse to be part of it, even if it costs you your job.  This is integrity.  This trait is in short supply these days.