Re:Surely We Can Do Better Than Elon Musk
by ncmncm on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:12PM
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The article reads, to me, as tightly restrained.
I also wonder about the successes. I have to attribute them to people he hired--or to people they hired. There is a degree of luck there, and of being able to buy valid evaluations of prospective employees. But that isn't enough; there is still a mystery. You can see Google trying to achieve moonshot things, and failing repeatedly. Musk has lots of failures, but two actual successes.
Since he is not a genius, but has certain very good people doing really unusually good things on his behalf, I am forced to conclude he must have an HR trick that gets the best people to do their best work, and he is (just?) smart enough to get and stay out of their way.
I also wonder about the successes. I have to attribute them to people he hired--or to people they hired. There is a degree of luck there, and of being able to buy valid evaluations of prospective employees. But that isn't enough; there is still a mystery. You can see Google trying to achieve moonshot things, and failing repeatedly. Musk has lots of failures, but two actual successes.
Since he is not a genius, but has certain very good people doing really unusually good things on his behalf, I am forced to conclude he must have an HR trick that gets the best people to do their best work, and he is (just?) smart enough to get and stay out of their way.