THE PLANE WHO WENT TO CHICAGO: The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course: A company once driven by engineers became driven by finance. “On the tarmac, Condit stepped out of the jet, made a brief speech, then boarded a helicopter for an aerial tour of Boeing’s new corporate home: the Morton Salt building, a skyscraper sitting just out of the Loop in downtown Chicago. Boeing’s top management plus staff—roughly 500 people in all—would work here. They could see the boats plying the Chicago River and the trains rumbling over it. Condit, an opera lover, would have an easy walk to the Lyric Opera building. But the nearest Boeing commercial-airplane assembly facility would be 1,700 miles away.”

Move your company HQ to a city run by grifters and crooks, then lose your bearings and values? Who could have seen that coming?

Executive offices should be in the factories, and you should have to walk through the shop floor to get to them.