Boeing's problems are routinely described as a manufacturing crisis, a safety crisis, or a management crisis. All three are accurate. None of them is the root cause. The root cause is a cultural transformation that happened twenty-five years ago and is extraordinarily difficult to reverse. The proximate turning point was the 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas. The outcome of … [Read more...] about The Real Reason Boeing Can’t Recover
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Tariffs Are the Wrong Tool for the Right Problem
The political appeal of tariffs is easy to understand. The actual mechanics of what they do — and don't do — are considerably less flattering than the rhetoric suggests. The underlying problem tariffs are deployed to address is real: the hollowing out of domestic manufacturing, strategic dependency on adversarial supply chains, and wage compression in trade-exposed industries. … [Read more...] about Tariffs Are the Wrong Tool for the Right Problem
Abu Dhabi to Host United Nations Industrial Development Organization General Conference in 2019
Abu Dhabi has officially been selected to host the 2019 United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) General Conference (GC), the organisation's supreme policy-making organ which convenes every two years. The announcement was made following a vote by the 53 member states of the Industrial Development Board (IDB) at their 46th annual meeting in Vienna where they … [Read more...] about Abu Dhabi to Host United Nations Industrial Development Organization General Conference in 2019