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It will be very hard for people not to learn the wrong lessons from Elon’s takeover of Twitter, even if he is successful. Seems very early to judge in either d
by mikkergp 4y ago
It will be very hard for people not to learn the wrong lessons from Elon’s takeover of Twitter, even if he is successful.
Seems very early to judge in either direction, we’ll probably need at least a year to see (or maybe just through Black Friday). But I would disagree with anyone who doesn’t think Elon isn’t in the middle of a high tightrope wall without a net. How many leaders really want to take on this level of risk? And how many want to lose their best engineers to competitors who aren’t taking these risks. We’re like three months in to a bull market and everyone seems to think the lessons aren’t just generalizable, But universal?
Everyone said Jobs completely changed the business landscape, by not very company is apple and not every leader is jobs. In fact it seems very few large tech companies other than apple operate like apple, and even Apple isn't feeling very apple-like lately.
The other thing is I imagine their is a glacier effect here. If Elon is effective it’s probably for the 90% you don’t see, not the 10% you do. He’s not effective, because he fired people. He’s effective because of the way that fits into a larger strategy.
- he_is_legend 4y agoMaybe I am posting on the wrong forum, but a lot of people seem to have this magical notion that CEOs make everything in a company happen. Elon single-handedly made those rockets land on a raft in the ocean. Elon re-invented electrical cars all by himself. Elon made a Mars habitation dream possible. Except Elon did none of those things. He was the CEO of companies whose staff did those things, following his vision. Staff. People. It always takes a team. The team of people that he is currently attempting to grind into dust at Twitter.