Ashok Paliwal

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Marc Andreessen went on Chris Williamson's podcast and broke down exactly how Elon Musk runs multiple companies at once

No other CEO on Earth does this:

1. Every week, Musk shows up at each of his companies, identifies the single biggest problem that company is having that week, and fixes it. Then he does that for 52 weeks in a row. At the end of the year, each company has solved its 52 biggest problems. Meanwhile, most large companies are still having the planning meeting for the pre-planning meeting for the board presentation with the compliance review and the legal review attached.

2. This is not a new operating method. It is actually how the great industrialists of the late 1800s and early 1900s ran their companies. Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Watson, who built IBM. Total devotion from the leader to fully and deeply understand what the company does, be in the trenches, talk directly to the people doing the work, and be the lead problem solver in the organization. Andreessen says he is not aware of another current CEO who operates this way.

3. The framework Musk uses is the bottleneck. In any manufacturing chain, there is always one thing holding everything up. Sometimes it is raw materials at the start. Sometimes it is warehousing at the end. Sometimes it is in the middle. The job is to find it and remove it. Musk has universalized this concept across every company he runs. In any given week, there is one main bottleneck. He micromanages the solution to that one thing and delegates almost everything else.

4. Musk delegates almost everything. Andreessen is clear about this. He is not involved in most of what his companies are doing. He is involved in the one thing that is the biggest problem right now. Once that is fixed, he moves to the next biggest problem. Everything else by definition, is running better than the bottleneck, so it does not need him.

5. When Musk identifies the bottleneck, he goes directly to the engineer who actually understands it. not the VP of engineering, not the director, not the manager. The individual contributor who has the actual technical knowledge. He sits in the room with that person and fixes the problem alongside them. He does not ask for a report to be reviewed in three weeks. he shows up at the keyboard or on the manufacturing line and works through it overnight if necessary.

6. This is why technical people who work for Musk say it was the best experience of their lives. Andreessen's framing: if you are stuck on a problem you cannot solve, Elon Musk is going to show up in his Gulfstream, sit with you in front of the keyboard, and help you figure it out. For an engineer who genuinely cares about the work, that is an almost incomprehensible level of support from the CEO of the company.

7. Business school teaches the opposite of this: management as a generic skill applicable to any industry. Soup company or a rocket company, the management principles are the same. process, balance sheet, meeting schedules, compliance, executive motivation, interpersonal conflict resolution. Andreessen says those skills are useful in many contexts. They just give you nothing; you need to do what Musk does. And Musk pushes as far as he can away from all of that so he can spend all of his time doing the things only he can do.

[Vishal. @SPORTYVISHAL]

Captain Rohit Sharma said ,"I had not thought of retiring from T20I at this time, but the kind of situation has come, I thought it is the perfect situation for me to say goodbye to T20I and yes, I will 100% play IPL".

[Rahul | Data & Tech @yesrahulkr]

@virendersehwag One of the best edit

[Ashok Paliwal @ashokp1981]

@mini_razdan10 @sagarikaghose Pure Gold for sure

[Ashok Paliwal @ashokp1981]

@mini_razdan10 @sagarikaghose He is so clear even in anger

[Bill Gates @BillGates]

Transmission is critical to unleashing the potential of affordable and abundant clean energy: https://t.co/NJWWkaWD36

[Ashok Paliwal @ashokp1981]

@SahilBloom Focus on Behaviour rather than results

[Ashok Paliwal @ashokp1981]

@jpsusantyo @SahilBloom This is one of the top things i have heard in life

[Jason @jasonpsss]

@SahilBloom “Be the best part of another person’s day”

[Ghanashyam Murmu @CrownGhanashyam]

In the era of obscene films & vulgar comedy , #panchayat2 is a masterpiece. ❤️

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

16. Ben Franklin Effect:
Getting someone who dislikes you to do you a favor can get them to like you, as people's identities are a story they tell themselves, and if they're kind to you they need to square their actions with their identity, so they tell themselves they like you.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

12. Fredkin's Paradox:
The more similar two choices seem, the less the decision should matter, yet the harder it is to choose between them. As a result, we often spend the most time on the decisions that matter least.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

10. Proteus Effect:
In virtual spaces, people become like their avatars. For instance, using a "sexy" avatar tends to make a person more flirtatious. This suggests people's personalities are largely a performance choreographed to social expectations.

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Don’t fall in love with a startup idea, fall in love with a problem to solve.

[Aneetta @aneetta_joby_]

Story of my life.

[Dickie Bush 🚢 @dickiebush]

I found the greatest hack to get rid of passive voice.

After every verb, insert "by zombies."

If the sentence still makes sense, you're using ​passive voice.

"The story was written (by zombies)" → passive voice.

"She wrote (by zombies) the story." → active voice.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

You don’t lack talent, you lack patience

You don’t lack ideas, you lack execution

You don’t lack growth, you lack risk-taking

You don’t lack love, you lack self-love

You don’t lack knowledge, you lack initiative

You don’t lack opportunities, you lack courage

[Ashok Paliwal @ashokp1981]

@aneetta_joby_ Glad to be here too ! ☺️