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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