The $15 Billion Jet Dilemma Facing Boeing's CEO

Boeings corporate behaviour over the last decade or more clearly displays the American corporation mantra of profit before anything else, and a total lack of corporate ethics and morals, in the pursuit of money, and more money.
This total lack of ethics and morals in the corporations of America is a corrosive rot that is undermining Americas power and standing in the world.
It is the equivalent of a major termite infestation in a timber-framed house - whereby the house looks superb from the street, but where it will crumble into ruins when some pressure is applied, such as strong winds.
The strong winds are blowing on the House of Boeing and I can see a lot of crumbling into termite dust coming for that House.
Boeings deceitful, self-serving, greedy, and morally-bankrupt corporate behaviour, should be held up as a classic example of what not to do, in any future "corporate ethics and morals" training.
Unfortunately, I don't think anything will change in the corporations of America, as they continue down that same broad path to eventual decay and destruction.
Boeing will never again reach the heights it reached; it has peaked, and it is likely to be mortally wounded.
There are myriads of problems the company still has yet to address, and corporate behaviour is just one of them - let alone the problem of nearly 500 unsold 737MAX jets.
In 1955, GM was the richest and most powerful corporation on the planet, as witnessed by their stunning 1955 "Powerama" expo in Chicago.
International Harvester were in a similar position in the same decade. A huge corporation that provided the world with large numbers of good trucks and construction equipment.
But both GM and IH ended up in bankruptcy and merely a shadow of themselves - downfalls fed by poor management, a lack of corporate ethics and morals, and self-serving behaviour.
The book, "A Corporate Tragedy: The Agony of International Harvester", should be required reading for Boeing executives, as it details all the corporate mismanagement that led to IH being carved up by the corporate wolves, and the corporation totally destroyed.

unfortunately for calhoun, he has scant institutional wisdom to consult. THe board of directors is unlikely to be of material assistance. THe ethos of the company is sales, not engineering, yet a sharply defined new product is exactly what is called for, a targeted new airliner, conceived by engineers to offer an alternative to a runaway seccess story in the 320xlr and xl. THe new plane has to be differentiated and spot-on economically from an established very good airbus design and execution. The game-changer, company-saver is already months overdue. No pressure...

Hard to rebuild credibility when there were so many lies, deals and delays.. There should be real changes in the mgmt team, FAA reprimand for the inspection process etc.. let's not soothyhis over like icing on a birthday cake...

Boeing appears to be more interested in suckling at the Pentagon teat than in developing new commercial airliners. It is past time for them to replace the obsolescent 737 line with a modern design.

From AP:
Eisenhower explained it this way: The super rich could avoid the high taxes by investing their money in things that make America stronger. If they wanted to avoid high taxes, he said they could invest in business expansions and higher employee wages. They could give a million or two to tax-exempt non-profits that feed, house and clothe poor people of America, among other things.

Boeing continues to show any amount of mistakes is not enough,just continue down the same path, they can not see the trees for the forest.

Interesting to note that the U.S. Constitution does not discuss nor provide for (1) corporations and (2) political parties. They are just arbitrary arrangements for special interests, I would conclude.