As a Boeing retiree with 38 years of expertise on the Everett Boeing plant, I recognize the editorial “Congress should power Boeing to be higher” [Jan. 21, Opinion].
I disagree, nevertheless, with the concept a change in Boeing’s management could be of little assist. Vigorous federal oversight alone won’t repair the interior blindness of Boeing’s management.
Previous Boeing leaders similar to Alan Mulally and Pat Shanahan have been strategic, future-oriented thinkers who completely 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 remains to be completed.
As he continues to downplay the corporate’s accountability, his board of administrators blindly follows alongside as in addition they don’t possess the related expertise.
Boeing won’t survive underneath 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 the earth.
David L. Clay, Snohomish
