Saving Boeing Is the Hardest Job and Biggest Opportunity in Business

During the Boeing Machinists strike, more than a dozen 737 Max fuselages heading to Renton, Washington, were stored on train cars in a railyard just south of the stadiums in Seattle, unable to be finished.

In November, Sen. Ted Cruz, who next month will become chair of the Senate committee overseeing aviation, told new Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg that if the plane-maker suffered just one more high-profile safety issue, “your company is in deep, deep trouble.” “I think he’s right,” Ortberg told Boeing employees, relaying the conversation in an all-hands […]