{"id":340601,"date":"2020-03-06T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T04:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=340601"},"modified":"2020-03-06T10:30:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T05:00:27","slug":"boeing-ceo-points-at-predecessors-weak-leadership-for-737-max-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-ceo-points-at-predecessors-weak-leadership-for-737-max-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing CEO points at predecessor&#8217;s weak leadership for 737 MAX mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing Chief Executive David Calhoun largely blamed his predecessor for the crisis over the 737 MAX, which remains grounded after two deadly crashes, in an interview published Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Calhoun, a longstanding board member who took over as chief executive on January 13, told the New York Times that the problems at Boeing were even bigger than he anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more than I imagined it would be, honestly,&#8221; Calhoun said. &#8220;And it speaks to the weaknesses of our leadership.&#8221; He said predecessor Dennis Muilenburg had ramped up Boeing&#8217;s plane production too quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll never be able to judge what motivated Dennis, whether it was a stock price that was going to continue to go up and up, or whether it was just beating the other guy to the next rate increase,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing Chief Executive David Calhoun largely blamed his predecessor for the crisis over the 737 MAX, which remains grounded after two deadly crashes, in an interview published Thursday. Calhoun, a longstanding board member who took over as chief executive on January 13, told the New York Times that the problems at Boeing were even bigger than he anticipated. &#8220;It&#8217;s more than I imagined it would be, honestly,&#8221; Calhoun said. &#8220;And it speaks to the weaknesses of our leadership.&#8221; He said predecessor Dennis Muilenburg had ramped up Boeing&#8217;s plane production too quickly. &#8220;I&#8217;ll never be able to judge what motivated Dennis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}