Boeing Faces Tricky Balance Between Safety and Financial Performance

I’m pretty sure that you can’t cost-cut and stock buyback your way to product quality, engineering reliability and manufacturing excellence. What are the odds that a Jack Welch-trained MBA can right the ship?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/business/boeing-safety-financial-performance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R00.nCcy.f_I5GDr1rxoj&bgrp=a&smid=url-share

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I’m gonna hope this is some bored journalist’s take on things, because it’s clear to me that without “safety” there is going to be no financial performance.

One might hope someone in the c-suites would be saying the same thing to whoever is providing the cliff notes for the conference calls.

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