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Awesome post with a lot of hard-earned wisdom. It reads like a moment where a lot of "taking a step back to examine things" was done. > Most people were good a
by mydriasis 3y ago
Awesome post with a lot of hard-earned wisdom. It reads like a moment where a lot of "taking a step back to examine things" was done.
> Most people were good at their jobs but it was nearly impossible to fire poor performers — instead they got shuffled around to other teams because few managers had the will or resources to figure out how to get them out.
> Often it was a small cross-functional team of intrinsically motivated people who made the biggest impact by challenging some core assumption.
> I learned a ton from watching Elon up close – the good, the bad and the ugly. His boldness, passion and storytelling is inspiring, but his lack of process and empathy is painful.
And many, many more. Really spoken like someone clever, someone with a lot of understanding, someone observant, and someone very, very smart.