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 […]

The Shame of Liberty: How the Lazy, Safe Renaming of Fort Bragg Wasted an Opportunity

The new Fort Liberty sign is displayed outside the base in Fort Liberty, N.C.

The renaming of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, mandated by Congress and formalized in a ceremony in June, was an opportunity to remind not only the installation’s current and future troops and families, but also the country, of the social value of our Army. In selecting the name “Liberty,” the Pentagon wasted an opportunity. The shedding […]

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