The pivotal point was when they physically moved the leaders away from the people that engineer and build the planes, ensuring the creation of a management class of employees who only cared about squeezing the working class of employees.
His podcast role is Chief Cynic but man I love listening to Ed Zitron's Better Offline. What I'm about to link is an extremely hard & direct a polemic, especially the second about the specific people at the largest companies, but damn. It was so enervating to hear.
The Shareholder Supremacy episode ties it all to Jack Welsh making everything awful forever everywhere, managing by number-goes-up. And then How Shareholders Are Destroying the Tech Industry is such a real shared anger against specific leaders, that undercuts how bad & ineffective & midling this age is, being lead by people with so little inspiration & touch with their products.
https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/the-shareholder-suprema... https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/how-shareholders-are-de...
This podcast series is definitely on my world treasures list, as a how-it-really-is "histories of today" account. Also, the Daily Show keeps having some real bangers... (Covering the media coverage of McDonalds vs Enemy Within was a deep cut.) It's cathartic as hell and often remarkably informative (but also sometimes less so too).
2001: Seattle to Chicago: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/on-this-day-boeing-moves-co...
2022: Chicago to Washington, DC area: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...
2024: Back to Seattle (maybe just the CEO and not the whole office): https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/new-boein...