The same thing happened when Allied Signal bought Honeywell.
Bingo! Larry Bossidy was another Welch acolyte. Jim Mcinerney went to 3M and ruined its culture of innovation . Harry Stonecipher turned Boeing from a culture of safety to one. of financial bullshit. Meanwhile Jeff Immelt stayed to crap in the nest Welch built by wrecking GE.
All this happened 15-20 years before anyone uttered the acronym “DEI”, but boy, were they ever ready for it…just the flavor of the month of the same kind of management malfeasance they’d been practicing for years.
The same thing happened when Allied Signal bought Honeywell.
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and airResearch when I worked there making airplane engine parts. Allied ruind them