New Boeing CEO Calls Alaska Airline Door Incident a Watershed Moment

Looking her up, Stephanie Pope's background is finance. That plus DEI. Not aircraft engineering as I had hoped.

𝑃𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐵𝑜𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒. 𝐴𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑜𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔’𝑠 𝐸𝑥𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑙, 𝑃𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑜𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝, 𝑎 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝 𝑑𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛.

OP that because it did not impact white Americans.

Sheesh. She's going to be a DEI disaster. How cynical of Boeing to put forward a woman expecting everyone to ignore she's finance bro (with a vagina).

Oh, yes, she’s definitely a DEI disaster because she’s a woman! R3, you’re a brilliant talent evaluator.

How’s it going at the call center?

See r1.

Boeing needs to return to its roots with management who understand how airplanes are built. Her actual managerial focus appears to have been diversity statistics.

4 Reading skills? I didn't say she would be a DEI disaster because she is woman. But based on her background. I did say that they chose a woman as a deliberate PR move and it's cynical. Why didn't they hire a FEMALE ENGINEER, with some business savvy. Not a suit out of the DEI track.

R1 and R5 are retarded. The CEO of McDonald's is not a former chef. The CEO of Marriott is not a former housekeeper. She doesn't need to have worked on an airplane assembly line in order to run Boeing. You don't know anything about business.

The executive suite is NOT serious about putting engineering first. The only thing that will make them serious about this is SUITS IN JAIL and government oversight.

This company is being treated like the big banks - too big to fail. That may be so, but how about a bit of moderation of the greed? And making the executives PAY for their failings.

Yeah I do. I have worked at Credit Suisse, First Boston, Chase and Lehman. Most of them wrecked by greedy executive suites.

And the CEO of McDonalds SHOULD know a bit more about nutrition and food quality, in my opinion. At least in the USA, it's garbage food, because it's as low as the US government allows in ingredient quality.

Phil Condit, who put Boeing on the path to shortsighted greed and caused the MDD reverse takeover is an engineer.

Well he sucked too. Your point? DEI expert is going to turn this around?

My point is that’s it is not as simple as engineers = good, MBAs = bad.

OK I agree. But optics at this time.

Here is where small minds might attempt to ponder the possibility that, just occasionally, a person who occupies a DEI job has done so because of their outstanding overall leadership qualities.

(In fact, I have a friend who’s ascent up the corporate ladder started with a pivotal head of diversity job, which led to a key role on the company’s executive committee.)

But I hate to meddle with uninformed narratives.

Fucking Murdoch Fox Business

The OP is right. Even though Phil Condit is an engineer he was the guy who divorced Boeing from its engineering corporate culture in favor of suits and finance. He fucking moved management to Chicago so they wouldn't have to be reminded that they built airplanes:

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. And that statement, more than anything, captures a cardinal truth about the aerospace giant. The present 737 Max disaster can be traced back two decades—to the moment Boeing’s leadership decided to divorce itself from the firm’s own culture.

For about 80 years, Boeing basically functioned as an association of engineers. Its executives held patents, designed wings, spoke the language of engineering and safety as a mother tongue. Finance wasn’t a primary language. Even Boeing’s bean counters didn’t act the part. As late as the mid-’90s, the company’s chief financial officer had minimal contact with Wall Street and answered colleagues’ requests for basic financial data with a curt “Tell them not to worry.”

R15, the problem is that boards always hire women and POC for clean up - none of whom have the connections and support of the fuckups who created these disasters.

The outgoing Boeing CEO reaped his $30 million pay package, but did NOT get the $3 million bonus. He’ll be placed somewhere else while she is written off as a “what did you expect?”mistake. Then, they’ll hire another one of their own once the bad garbage is cleared.

I hope she’s more qualified to run Boeing than the woman who was running Harvard.

R1 and R5 are also right. I thought they were the OP.

[quote] Boeing needs to return to its roots with management who understand how airplanes are built. Her actual managerial focus appears to have been diversity statistics.

Helping explain why diversity lady moved so high in the company and why Airbus will totally own the Western airline manufacturing industry......

Boeing headquarters moved from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia where they can be closer to Congress and the Pentagon.

Girlfriend, that scarf is NOT helping!