Alex, I will take “What happens when you go woke” for $1000, please.
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There should be some honor in understanding that we inherited something beautiful and good and worth loving.
They don't.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is also applicable to rich, stupid people.
Non-aircraft people do not understand this - you either have aviation in your blood or you do not.
If you do not, but pretend that you do, you are a poser and a destroyer of aviation culture.
This is spot on,
It's a big problem, with many aspects. I trace a lot of it to MBAs. Companies began to be run by people who did not understand the business. They knew spreadsheets. They knew financing. They could squeeze profit by putting little numbers in little boxes. For awhile, they seemed OK. Shareholders liked it, but the core business competence began to decrease.
If the people at the top really knew their business, they would have been in a position to say that the Woke stuff was bad for business. But that ship had already sailed. The people at the top are just about the perception. If you check certain boxes, you look good, and that is enough.
Sports Illustrated was famous for their annual swimsuit edition. Then they put a transgender on the cover. Didn't go well. The people in charge actually didn't see that coming.
Bud Light is another good example. If the people running the beer company understood the business of beer -- and specifically the demographics of the Bud Light consumer base -- they would not have chosen a transgender as the face of Bud Light. But they did. Because they didn't understand their business.
Once upon a time, a worker would start at the bottom and work their way up. They knew the business inside and out because they had worked the business at many levels. True, you wouldn't find many CEOs who really started in the mail room. But a lot of Managers had started at the ground level.
I think that has largely disappeared. These days, you start at the bottom, and you will stay at the bottom. There are just fewer "careers" now. Just jobs. Just dead-end jobs. And middle management was seen as wasteful and got hollowed out. There is no where for people to move up to. And the people at the top start at the top (They got that Harvard degree, and they know people). They run the beer company until they transition over to the airplane company and then they transition to the computer company. They don't understand any of it.
I am a yuuge fan of Christopher Rufo - this is great.
Boeing started losing their way when they moved their Headquarters from Seattle to Chicago.
Now that they've moved their Headquarters from Chicago to Alexandria, VA (near DC) it's going to get even worse.
Moved HQ to Arlington. Death Nell of any decent company. They’ve become 100% part of the problem in the USA.
My mom’s late brother (2019) worked at Boeing for the bulk of his career. He would know believe what it has become today.
A man can not have two masters. This is what I noticed about groups long ago: they can only have one focus, one goal. As soon as they add a goal, their attention is divided and neither goal is reached; often the group will break up altogether.
Once you hire woke you introduce a cancer into the company. Woke will agitate instead of producing. They will only hire other woke regardless of best qualifications. They will drive out productive workers who don’t want to put up with the woke nonsense. Like a cancer it cannot be reasoned with or appeased. The only hope is, like cancer, to burn, cut, or poison it out and hope you don’t kill the host in the process.
If any two industries on Earth must be run by high-quality and specialized individuals, it's medicine and aircraft manufacture/operation.
Lives count on the results
to put it bluntly, all the white guys with crew cuts thin ties white shirts and slide rules have walked out leaving the math is racist crowd and their phones to figure out how a bumblebee flies.
Boeing’s plight is a metaphor for the incremental rot and decay of the Union government and by extension American society. Or is it the other way around?
Somebody keeps buying the Boeing (BA) stock of almost no value other than what the machinery might get at auction.
If you pay the tax to the DEI gods or the ESG gods and use coded language with your workforce, it absolves you of the hard work of really leading.