Boeing needs to change its insular culture, CEO says

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg has said the company needs a more open culture where staff are encouraged to speak up and communicate across divisions, according to a transcript of a meeting seen by Reuters. “We’re very insular” and “we don’t communicate across boundaries,” Ortberg said in the webcast from St. Louis, Missouri, the headquarters of Boeing’s defense and space division, adding that the company’s teams “don’t work with each other as well as we could . . . And the power of the Boeing Company is in us all kind of rowing the boat together.” He said cultural change would boost morale, and “the results will show in the marketplace.”