The difference between Boeing and SpaceX, one is a plodding corporation with your typical CEO trying to make the next quarter, the other is a lean mean machine with a kickass visionary leader.
Having worked at Boeing for 9 years as a contractor, I believe they could reach out and hire 100 of their best employees that they have let go of in the last decade or so (I do not consider myself in that group) and they could recapture their heritage. Then pass if forward. Just my thoughts.