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One hopes he has read this, a classic slate star codex post on leadership: https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1209794.html#cutid1 https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/120

One hopes he has read this, a classic slate star codex post on leadership: https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1209794.html#cutid1 https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1209794.html#cutid1 Sincere questions for Musk would be: How are you supporting your management team when you've asked their subordinates to bypass them with good ideas for exposure, leaving them only to provide risks and bad news their subordinates didn't want to bring forward? How do local team leaders take risks when their team is encouraged to defect and draw in the exec at the first sign of controversy, or just opportunistically? How do your teams commit to shared outcomes when an arbitrary member can call in a veto from the top? How do you as the owner not become the bottleneck (and blocker) while everyone clambers to have your support their pet issue because they know nothing is going to get traction without your royal assent? How do managers not just fire people who call in your air support for things they are in fact wrong about, and how do managers trust those people to be a part of the team after? His company, his rules. But having seen this kind of naive abdication of responsibility for effective delegation in practice, it is reasonable to ask how this thing scales when you add the uncertainty of a random super veto, and encourage and reward transgression. edit: better link to "The Asshole Filter," article.

netsharc 9y ago
Oh man the first paragraphs of that article contains so many instances of the word "asshole(s)" that it's having that effect of ehen you repeat a word so nany times where it just becomes noise without meaning.
- motohagiography 9y ago
  It's a bit pedantic at the beginning, but when he defines it as "transgressiveness or willingness to transgress," it becomes much more clear. That's the trouble with great ideas in blogs. Here's the essence of it: "If you tell people "the only way to contact me is to break a rule" you will only be contacted by rule-breakers. But wait, it can get worse. If, despite telling everyone to use the departmental email address, Fred personally handles – expedites – the requests of people who email him at his personal email account, he is now rewarding those who transgress. So far, I've been talking about being an asshole (or not) – that is, transgressiveness – as a fixed trait. But that's not how personality works, even assuming it is a personality trait. If it is a personality trait then it's more like a "set point" for something that varies with circumstances. Which means if you reward it, you will get more of it."
trendoid 9y ago
Can you also share the slatestarcodex link if that was a different post?
- motohagiography 9y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/747694/the_asshole_filter/?st=jga2ktkg&sh=f4d22712 https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/747694/the_... is the closest I can find to it.

netsharc 9y ago

Oh man the first paragraphs of that article contains so many instances of the word "asshole(s)" that it's having that effect of ehen you repeat a word so nany times where it just becomes noise without meaning.

motohagiography 9y ago
It's a bit pedantic at the beginning, but when he defines it as "transgressiveness or willingness to transgress," it becomes much more clear. That's the trouble with great ideas in blogs. Here's the essence of it: "If you tell people "the only way to contact me is to break a rule" you will only be contacted by rule-breakers. But wait, it can get worse. If, despite telling everyone to use the departmental email address, Fred personally handles – expedites – the requests of people who email him at his personal email account, he is now rewarding those who transgress. So far, I've been talking about being an asshole (or not) – that is, transgressiveness – as a fixed trait. But that's not how personality works, even assuming it is a personality trait. If it is a personality trait then it's more like a "set point" for something that varies with circumstances. Which means if you reward it, you will get more of it."

trendoid 9y ago

Can you also share the slatestarcodex link if that was a different post?

motohagiography 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/747694/the_asshole_filter/?st=jga2ktkg&sh=f4d22712 https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/747694/the_... is the closest I can find to it.