Now, the shift to South Carolina was the fulfillment of what the physicist Stan Sorscher had warned about years earlier, the new overlords in Chicago pitting states and workers against each other to gain advantage for themselves. Creating “risk” all the while, in the studiously bland term. Yet Boeing’s incentive structure practically guaranteed it. The compensation of McNerney, Luttig, and other top executives was tied to boosting free cash flow and the net return from assets on hand—the sort of metrics that tend to favor investors over employees and customers.
