I know, but no one cares who’s responsible at the moment. What people care about is that they read a new article about Boeings planes endangering passengers every 3 days. So while Delta is most likely at fault, Boeing is gonna take the hit to the company image. That’s why I was specifically speaking about the Boeing PR team. Those guys and the crisis managers won’t be able to catch a break for a loooong time.
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I agree with your comment, even though I have no idea on the technical aspects. What I can weigh in on is crisis management, especially communication.
Boeing needs to take control of the situation and actively start communicating and showing that they are working on fixing this thing. In Situational Crisis Communication Theory you would call it a rebuild approach. They tried denial, they tried downplaying, it’s not working. A rebuild strategy is usually the last resort, as things like admitting your mistakes and fixing them are rarely appreciated by investors. Furthermore it’s usually a huuuuge cost to do a recall on that scale. But Boeing need to show the public that they are actively working on improving the situation, to earn back their trust. So at least a partial recall should be considered.
You’re exactly right in your first paragraph about the news. The media and the public are very sensitive to Boeing quality issues rn. These articles won’t stop unless one of three things happen. Either Boeing gets their shit together and gets some effective crisis management and communication done, the company goes bust, or something else turns up in the news that replaces this. The third option will be the most likely, but it will also haunt them forever. It’s like that exploding galaxy note 7 situation. There were articles about that for every new generation of Galaxy Note, despite Samsung doing pretty well in investigating the issues. And while the following Note phones sold alright, the whole thing was a significant loss of trust and money for Samsung and enabled competitors like Huawai to catch up.
What they do right is having a duopoly with Airbus, and great military contracts. So investors know that even if things are shit rn, they will probably get better again.
Furthermore, while I agree that Boeing probably will not go bankrupt over this, the valuation sometimes is not a great indicator of what’s going on internally. Enron was worth over 60 billion. Half a year later they were at zero. Now I’m not saying Boeing is nearly that bad, but they are in some trouble for sure.
Working for Boeings PR department must be absolute madness right now… imagine having to somehow excuse all those fuck ups and every week there is a new one
Geldwäsche: „Unnötige Freiheitseinschränkung“ – Lindner lehnt Bargeldobergrenze ab [handelsblatt.de]
Ist ja nur ne Hoffnung. Aber wenn sie mal wieder die 5% verpassen könnte ich mir schon vorstellen dass sie zumindest darüber nachdenken…
Geldwäsche: „Unnötige Freiheitseinschränkung“ – Lindner lehnt Bargeldobergrenze ab [handelsblatt.de]
Der Chrissy hat schon wirklich ein Händchen dafür immer genau das Gegenteil von einer produktiven Haltung einzunehmen… Hoffentlich schmeißt die FDP den nach der nächsten Wahlpleite endlich raus.
I know the general gist of the situation. Low spending from domestic households, real estate bubble, excessive government influence on industry scaring investors, and so on.
My problem with it is that most headlines make it sound like it’s all gonna implode spectacularly tomorrow. The articles themselves usually paint a more reasonable picture of the situation, similar to your comment. But most people don’t read the article. They just see the headline over and over.
Feels like I’ve been reading headlines like this for at least 3 years now. If it all finally comes crashing down, it’s gonna be a big one I guess.
It’s the most popular and most hated newspaper in Germany. I would put it at a similar level as Rupert Murdoch’s shit rags.
They usually have dubious journalistic standards, write exaggerated headlines and harass their targets. They also constantly badmouth progressive or environmental causes because their shitty publisher, Axel Springer Verlag, has a very imperialist neoliberal agenda that they enforce in all their publications. I blame them in part for the popularity of AfD, even though they don’t directly endorse them (as far as I know).
Good to see that at least some of that whole tragedy is resolved without more street violence.
Da bin ich wieder ganz bei dir, wenn dann mit Ausgleichen. Aber ich glaube der Mediamarkt/Saturn-Chef wäre davon weniger begeistert.
Das alles mal so dahingestellt. Zusätzlich dazu hat ein gesetzlicher freier Tag weitere soziale Vorteile, die über den Arbeiterschutz hinausgehen.
Es ermöglicht der Bevölkerung sich politisch zu organisieren, da es einen Tag gibt, an dem alle Zeit haben.
Auch der soziale Austausch durch (leider aussterbende) Vereine wird dadurch erleichtert.
Familien haben wegen unterschiedlichen Terminen oft nur am Sonntag die Möglichkeit gemeinsam etwas zu unternehmen.
Es gibt bestimmt noch mehr, aber ich bin ehrlich gesagt auch kein Fachmann für die ganze Thematik.
Sasso Pordoi? It’s such a beautiful area!