Bloomberg writer Peter Robison conducted more than a dozen interviews with former Boeing employees and FAA inspectors, and went through hundreds of pages of internal emails and records. In a piece entitled “Former Boeing Engineers Say Relentless Cost Cutting Sacrificed Safety” he writes this: “The crisis is best understood as part of a larger drama that’s played out as Boeing has reshaped its workforce in an all-consuming focus on shareholder value.” In that pressured environment, what gets sacrificed on the altar of more profits, now? It wasn't supposed to be this way... If this could happen to Boeing, what’s the lesson for other companies?

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<p>Bloomberg writer Peter Robison conducted more than a dozen interviews with former Boeing employees and FAA inspectors, and went through hundreds of pages of internal emails and records. In a piece entitled “Former Boeing Engineers Say Relentless Cost Cutting Sacrificed Safety” he writes this: “The crisis is best understood as part of a larger drama that’s played out as Boeing has reshaped its workforce in an all-consuming focus on shareholder value.” In that pressured environment, what gets sacrificed on the altar of more profits, now? It wasn't supposed to be this way... If this could happen to Boeing, what’s the lesson for other companies?</p><p> </p> Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a>

Big Business is shaping the world in unprecedented ways. Through a series of conversations with today’s best business writers and thinkers, journalist Bethany McLean (co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room) cuts through the hype and hand-wringing to reframe the stories you thought you understood and uncover the ones you didn’t know were important.

Making a Killing with Bethany McLean

An Inside Look At The Crisis At Boeing, with Bloomberg's Peter Robison

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