An interesting take on the “McDonnell-Douglas ruined Boeing” thesis: https://backofmind.substack.com/p/how-the-wrong-side-won-at-boeing
“I think that’s one of the deep causes of what went wrong in Boeing; the McDonnell-Douglas executives were the ones who could back up their business cases with a ream of hard data. The legacy Boeing executives were left talking about culture and best practice and all sorts of soft-sounding things that were hard to put into a model.”
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