Working together

Published 9:00 pm Sunday, February 19, 2006

One of the challenges for Boeing, as it tries to remake itself, is getting its key people as excited about designing efficient production systems as they are about designing efficient airplanes.

Wall Street Journal columnist Carol Hymowitz uses Boeing 787 chief Mike Bair as an example as she looks at one of the new job skills required of managers — collaborating. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/special_packages/business_monday/13910449.htm

Key Quote: “One big challenge: encouraging partners ‘to be blunt with us when they think we’re doing something stupid,’ Bair says. ‘We’re their customer, and some are too polite.’”