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| PlainName:
From the NYTimes today: --- Quote ---More than three years after Elon Musk stunned the auto industry with an electric pickup truck that looked more like a stealth fighter than a way to haul two-by-fours and drywall, Tesla said last month that it would begin building the vehicle by the end of 2023. The announcement has helped fuel a recovery in Tesla’s share price, ... --- End quote --- So all those who have figured the shares are (or will be) worth investing in are stupid idiots, right? All of them? And why are Tesla promoting this now? Surely the ideal would be to just make the thing and then, ta-da, show it off and have people buy it when they leave the arena. That's pretty much what Apple do, right? But Tesla, it's almost as if they need to keep their share price up (maybe some insider with a bunch of shares has some large bills to pay). |
| TomKatt:
Any time you need to qualify someone's actions with a disclaimer like "he doesn't really mean what he says" or "you just need to understand what he means", you've lost my respect. And from what I can tell, very little of his success has been a result of his own actions. Serendipity seems to play a larger role. Plus a good understanding of "social engineering" (aka manipulation). Put simply, I have absolutely no respect for the man other to admire how easily he can swoon others (which I think says more about modern society than it does Musk). The irony of so many people choosing to believe "alternative facts" in this "information age" is astounding. I suspect more people put effort into researching their next smart phone purchase than they do important decisions that affect society in general. |
| TomKatt:
--- Quote ---“If Elon can learn how to put a bit more thought into some of the decisions, and fire from the hip a bit less, it might do some good,” the employee said. “He needs to learn the areas where he just does not know things and let those that do know take over.” At the same time, “he really doesn’t like to believe that there is anything in technology that he doesn’t know, and that’s frustrating,” the employee said. “You can’t be the smartest person in the room about everything, all the time.” --- End quote --- |
| tooki:
That is precisely what made Steve Jobs V2.0 (i.e. 1997 onward, after being ousted as a young snot in the 80s) such an effective leader: he deliberately surrounded himself with people who knew more than him. Despite his very confident outward appearance, and in many areas above-average knowledge (like of industrial design), he absolutely knew his limitations and knew he wasn’t an engineer or artist. His skill was in finding the best people in every discipline needed and getting them to work together. He pushed people (hard), but apparently, he really did defer to his experts when push came to shove. What he didn’t do was fire everyone who disagreed. (At least with Jobs 1.0, he would simply take the expert advice, think about it a while, and then present it at the next meeting as if it was his idea all along. Toxic, but at least he was actually doing what they said in the end.) |
| tooki:
Great little example of Jobs very much acknowledging his limitations (at 1:13:07) |
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