Boeing’s New CEO Regrets Blasting Predecessor as Backlash Grows
- Calhoun backtracks from rebuke of Muilenburg in NYT interview
- Leaders’s remarks were ‘as damaging as it gets,’ analysts says
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Boeing Co. Chief Executive Officer Dave Calhoun said he regretted berating his predecessor in an interview with the New York Times this week, backtracking almost immediately from a harsh critique that rattled employees of the embattled planemaker.
“I am both embarrassed and regretful about the article,” Calhoun wrote in a message to senior executives at the company, referring to a story that appeared March 5. “It suggests I broke my promise to former CEO Dennis Muilenburg, the executive team and our people that I would have their back when it counted most.”