Elon Musk once sent a company wide email to every Tesla employee at 1:17am.
The subject line was one word. "Productivity." The email said if a meeting doesn't require your direct contribution, leave. If a rule doesn't make sense, don't follow it. If a communication chain requires six people to relay a message that could go direct, skip the chain. He said anyone at Tesla has permission to email or talk to anyone else at Tesla, including him, without going through their manager.
He said large meetings are the blight of big companies. That most meetings should be three people or fewer. That if you're not adding value to a meeting you should walk out. Not rudely. Just leave. Nobody should be offended. What should offend people is wasting each other's time.
This email leaked and went viral because it violated every rule of corporate management. No hierarchy. No chain of command. No scheduled updates that exist because they've always existed.
Every other car company runs on process. Tesla runs on a 1am email that says stop following processes that don't make sense.
The difference between Musk and most CEOs isn't intelligence or vision. It's that most CEOs manage systems. Musk deletes systems. He treats every process as guilty until proven innocent. Every meeting as worthless until proven necessary. Every rule as an obstacle until proven useful.
Most companies die from rules they were too polite to question. Musk questions them at 1am and hits send.
Mesmerizing slow-motion footage of what happens when a droplet falls into a pool of water, a phenomenon known as a coalescence cascade.
📽: Steven Trainoff
A Pulsar spins 716 times a second, at 24% the speed of light, a teaspoon of it outweighs the Mount Everest and this is its real sound, captured by NASA
IRS: you owe us taxes
Me: how much do I owe?
IRS: you get to figure that out
Me: can I just pay what I want?
IRS: no we know exactly how much you owe but you have to guess the number too
Me: what if I guess wrong?
IRS: jail
Happy tax day!
That’s the spider tailed horned viper. It uses aggressive mimicry, its tail looks and moves like a spider to lure birds in. To the right prey, it basically signals "easy spider meal".
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This TSA catastrophe is the Democrat Party in a nutshell. They are directly causing immense hardship for American citizens, all for the sake of foreign invaders who don’t belong in this country. This is their Foreigners First ideology perfectly illustrated.