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Boeing had an amazing engineering record, then it merged with a company known for having a terrible engineering record. The executives who ran the shoddy company basically took over Boeing from the old management. Now Boeing is a company with a terrible engineering record. Look at what happened to GE, it was the same style of management that ruined Boeing.

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Answering the question by repeating the myth doesn't really seem to be what they are asking for.

Well it's the way GE was run and look what happened to them. Caring only about your share price is a great way to ruin a company. The share price should be the result of a well run business not the true north of the company. By making the metric into the goal it totally defeats the purpose of the metric.

So basically Goodhart's law in action then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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