“It is foolish to blame every corporate disaster on DEI.”
Fair enough—but DEI can take an excellent company and turn it into a mediocre one, and take a mediocre company and turn it into an awful one.
Among other things it is a morale crusher—and eventually the competent white males start “quiet quitting” or “mailing it in” if they do not leave to go elsewhere.
All the competent white males have to do is fail to report issues—while the DEI managers lack the skills to identify the same issues—and then easily fixable problems turn into major crises.
As I’ve posted before, the overarching theme of Boeing since its merger with McDonnell Douglas in 1997 (well before anyone imagined DEI) was cost cutting and profit maximization. Senior management has willfully dodged input that would slow moving product off the lines. The impact of any social engineering initiatives has been de minimis.
Thats not the problem with Boeing, stop with the DEI as it pertains to Boeing.