July 16, 2016

Happy 100th Birthday Boeing


The original Pacific Aero Products Company celebrates turning 100 today. Boeing is now a huge international company known worldwide. It was originally a few men who believed they could make better airplanes, and they did. From the original B&W Model 1 to the Clipper to WW2’s B-17 to B-52 to 707’s original jet age to 727 to the iconic 747 to the great F-15 to the amazing C-17 and F-18 to today’s 787, Boeing makes wonderful airplanes.

Boeing is the 3rd company I have worked for with over 100 years of history. Celebrated Colt Firearms 150th anniversary, and Sargent and Company dated back to 1864 making builders hardware.

What do these companies have in common?
  • ·      Innovate great products and services.
  • ·      Look out for their customers & end users. They care.
  • ·      Always becoming more productive.
  • ·      Adapt and adjust to market conditions.
  • ·      Always learning, especially from failures.
  • ·      Hire and develop great people.


Boeing has “The Incredibles” who built the first 747 in ~16 months while the factory was built around them. Supervisors would sometimes have to walk people out to their cars and watch them leave to make sure they went home for a break. (You cannot pay for performance like that.)

A lot of people will honor Boeing today and it is well deserved. Boeing people “Enthusiastically Tackle Challenges” through the decades, and do so today.

This is the best company ever worked for. What took me so long to get here?


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