Meet The Woman Trying To Clean Up Boeing's 737 Max Mess
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- When Stephanie Pope was appointed chief operating officer of Boeing in December, the reaction of many outside the company was, “Stephanie who?”
A little-known finance specialist who had most recently run the smallest of Boeing’s three divisions, devoted to aftermarket parts and services, the surprise promotion was seen as giving Pope the chance to gain the operational experience to succeed CEO David Calhoun in another few years.
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U need an engineer not a finance major
They need a Safety Engineer. No Safety Engineer would allow the MCAS system to be put in the way it was done.
Muilenberg was an engineer and the MAX 8 stuff happened under his watch. Engineers aren't necessarily good managers or executives as much as executives and managers aren't necessarily good engineers.
Exactly.
@@timkono5645 I'm reminded of Apple computers where Steve Jobs brought in the CEO of Pepsi to lead Apple. After Apple almost went bankrupt, they brought back Steve who led Apple with creation of the Ipod, Ipad, and IPhone. A sugar water CEO cannot lead a tech company. A person who understands technology can. Mind you Steve didn't graduate from university but that is not my point.
As a Quality Engineer I totally agree! Finance people dont get 6 sigma and manufcaturing
I don’t understand how she’s any different than the financial people who got Boeing into the mess it’s in now. She got her first operational role three months ago and now she’s going to save the company?
Finance specialist…. Yea this isn’t gonna work
Hahahaha! They haven't learnt one bit have they !! What a shame
Stephanie is a Finance guy .. She's Not an Aerospace Engineer. God forbid some casualties will happen again in the future if Stephanie become the CEO !
As skins of Dreamliners peel off during takeoff. . .
Is she trying to clear Boeing browsing history? lol
She sounds like a good politician, but at the end of the day you need people with technical chops to run a technical company.
Understatement of the month.
Exactly! I think what Boeing is trying to do, is to get someone they can throw under the bus or a scapegoat when something goes horribly wrong again. She probably fits the bill. But only time will tell.
She and her dad are both from MD, and she has an accounting, mba background. Another MD bean counter, boeing's future is sealed
Dennis Muilenburg was an aerospace and aeronautics engineer and what did he do? 4:42 Pope might be in finance but she been in the aviation industry since MD. She has to do a good job because the world the airlines and the US government will be watching. I don't think she wants a repeat of the two previous CEOs and appear in front of a senate hearing.
@@alexrebmann1253 After the 2 crashes, Boeing has every incentive to make the 737max the safest plane in the sky. The public trusted them at first, yet another one suffered a blowout. If there's a lesson, it's that Boeing never learns and is not to be trusted.
If you have any concerns as to the safety of Boeing aircraft, our door is always open.
~Stephanie Pope
Yeah...the EXIT door!
😂😂
Meet the woman trying to cut corner !
Bean counters historically are not the right kind of talent to fix a corporate mess like Boeing. If I owned any Boeing common stock these days I would be looking to divest.
OMG, another McDonald Douglas alumni! The DC 10 is now called the 737 max. Maybe another bean counter is a good fit, she can probably get a good price on replacing the life preservers under the seats with parachutes. I think I’ll just drive.
Parachutes would cost too much. Everybody would need skydiving lessons first - and THAT'S expensive...
She'll collect the next bumper bonus amount and scoot 😂😂
Pope may well be an excellent leader, but at this point Boeing needs the optics to be right. They need to signal that there will be a radical shift in company culture starting immediately. Pope ticks all the wrong boxes: Finance background, fruit of the poisoned McDonald Douglas tree, no engineering or manufacturing experience, MBA (the one positive is it's not from the Harvard Business School!), possibly a caretaker leader that either needs to be mentored by Calhoun or perhaps will be replaced as soon as Calhoun is gone (so signalling clearly that Boeing intends doing the same thing and expecting a different result at least until the end of this year).
Good luck Mrs Pope 👍🏻
Boeing would need Winston Wolf at this point
I sure hope that Stephanie Pope is watching all the media coverage.
Are accountants building the planes as well??
why don't they fire all the finance people of Boeing and replace them with more competent engineering people! I bet with you that an engineer understands financial figures much better than a finance girl or guy the engineering spread sheets!
Engineers don’t want to step away from their technical roles to do management. It is not surprising to have these positions then filled by other specialties. Also the companies often require MBAs. What engineer with a masters is going to go get a second masters to apply for a functional role? Calling her a bean counter is not a solution.
Not to mention Dennis Muilenburg was an engineer by trade. It’s not as simple as “engineers good, MBAs bad”, and to imply such is the truth is both counterproductive and self-congratulatory
But Dennis was not the one who initiated Max program wasnt He ?
Good luck because I refuse to fly on boeing planes and have alerted my coworkers to avoid these planes
Nope. I won't fly in a Boeing anymore. You lost my trust already.
Heralding a COO for being a woman when the woman comes from finance, not engineering _(so indicative)._ Boeing's board is sick and wrong.
Why hasn't Boeing been taken under extraordinary managment to sort out the technical problems? Does no one know how to get Boeing back on track again? Why are the peoplle responsible for the death arising from the abandonment of proper engineering standards been prosecuted?
Good luck
God knows where she will end up. An honest Certification Engineer is needed. Ask AWST to show my letter to her
Time out people. This is crazier than I expected. If errors happen in the production if parts are missing on a plane and nobody seems to notice - which is impossible in today's digitally controlled inline quality control measures - whose fault is it? The COO's or the CEO's? Blaming the CEO because he did not pay them enough is as old as the time factories exist. And who is better placed than the COO and his cabal to stick it to the CEO.
I cannot believe that Boeing is replacing the CEO with a COO who carries the ultimate responsibility for products leaving the factory. The COO has the authority not to release products if quality issues exist and he has to be overridden by the Board.
finance specialist whose first operational role came a few months ago, im good with airbus for now and avoid the 737 max
Isn't COO in charge of operations? Aren't all engineering, design, and manufacturing decisions ultimately owned by that C-level? How does promoting the person in charge of operations fix anything when almost all the problems were within operations in the first place?
She ran three small divisions internally and probably her divisions performed well. Operations is about people processes and products, and ultimately the leadership style is important for such a complex role because you need consensus and highly motivated people to improve things. Good leaders listen to their teams and She has unanimously been selected for her leadership style. It is leadership that led Boeing down the path it currently is on, not the skills of the employees, they are all highly skilled people but if the leader sends you in a conflicting direction that is where you go. Pope listens to the people. Something a lot of leaders do not do. It is also a much higher risk to hire a COO from the outside who does not understand Boeings operations, it may work but it may take a very long time to turn things around and even get the trust of internal teams.
In case you missed it; the position "COO" was made up as a placeholder...for Ms. Pope.
@@reubenmorris487 It wasn't made up, it was missing in the first place, it should have existed in the first place. All companies involved in manufacturing and of this size usually have a COO position. This is a really crucial position. We don't know if it was done for better publicity but the candidate is qualified for the position.
@@lizziethelemon Doesnt matter. Her background is finance and not engineering. Many aviation analysts have already made it clear that the next CEO has to be an engineer. Also I don't think she knows any better about aircrafts than calhoun does. Upon that, she having a lineage from MD only makes it worse.
Someone just got glass cliffd
Glass cliff.
Finance specialist.......
yess of course she's game changer honeyy
She excelled up the corporate lader under the system that created the situation that Boeing is in. You can't rise up to this position without believing in the program that is in place. What you have here is placing someone who will continue the program.
you do realize most boeing ceos in the past, even before the md merger majored in business
You need engineer for this role
you need an engineer in charge not economist
Boeing needs Olivia Pope!!
We didn't need to meet her if the engines were smaller to not overpower the body.
Financial background. Not engineering type
is a joke around . pilot congratulate travellers to be in a brand new build boing . from 100 , 95 was who actualy build and all rush to leave the airplane . only 5 stand still make a bet , this airplane can.t even start the engine
did she have a suicide too?
Yes Boeing really has become this REPEATEDLY stupid!!!
Let her do then lecture. You guys also promoted Elizabeth Holmes and many more fraudsters. Show some results.
She can try all she wants with her smiles and good looks. It’s just not going to happen. They need to move Boeing back to Seattle completely stop out sourcing parts to Asia and put the quality back in the aircraft where it belongs with union workers keep the politics out of the aircraft building in the bankers also out, then you build a great aircraft again no more 10% for the guy that is going to end
Less Focus on GENDER… More Focus on PERFORMANCE.
Still remember Fiorina as CEO and Chair of the Board of Hewlett-Packard in good times? Who destroyed HP. We will see.
It's so boever 😭
She's the head penny pincher at boeing for the last 20+ years. I can tell you from experience that she is just more of the same, everything being about money.
DEI is such a joke
Give it to Elon to fix 😊
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