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Musk is spread to thin. Period. Any one of his ventures is a full time job. Hard to understand what type of personality needs to branch out on in different area

by larrys 12y ago

Musk is spread to thin. Period. Any one of his ventures is a full time job. Hard to understand what type of personality needs to branch out on in different areas as he has. And how can you make good decision, no matter who you are, or what capabilities you have when you only have so many hours in a day?

tw04 12y ago
A good leader delegates to trusted associates. There's plenty of time in the day once you have put the right people in place to do the heavy lifting. If he's spread too thin, which I highly doubt he is, he's micromanaging.
josefresco 12y ago
He could just be really good at delegating - which if course requires really good people. I too will often think "why is Elon talking about THAT" as it is seemingly out of his expertise but after witnessing many examples, it seems Elon ponders many more subjects than are reflected in his existing businesses.
- larrys 12y ago
  I'm sure he's good at delegating. But in order to go to meetings and make good decisions there is still a ton of info to keep on top of. And people to talk to. Now multiple that by three. We're not talking about running a restaurant chain here or a discount store. We're talking about three businesses that require the type of high level knowledge and attention that is difficult for any single person to do. No matter who they are.
waterlesscloud 12y ago
How many things is Google trying to do, and in how many fields? How is that effectively different? Also, this comment supports my thesis that any comment using "Period." or "End of story." is overstated at best, and wrong at worst.
- leeber 12y ago
  You have a great thesis. Period.
- larrys 12y ago
  Not a fair comparison to google which is a company Musk is a person and the story isn't framed as "Musk Company branching into xyz" but "Elon Musk" branching into different companies. Separately google is highly profitable and can afford to take fliers in many areas and needs to do so in order to diversify, different situation. A "Musk Company" branching into different areas might be compared to GE having different divisions all managed in a way with the corporate structure centralized but in that case the head of GE isn't a tech visionary and isn't involved in anything within the particular company like it at least appears to be with Musk. Likewise with Berkshire Hathaway for that matter. Gotta tell you that in a sense it's almost like, get this, a ponzi scheme you keep spinning up new hope and investor money to keep things going and think you'll figure it out later down the road.

by larrys 12y ago

tw04 12y ago

A good leader delegates to trusted associates. There's plenty of time in the day once you have put the right people in place to do the heavy lifting. If he's spread too thin, which I highly doubt he is, he's micromanaging.

josefresco 12y ago

He could just be really good at delegating - which if course requires really good people. I too will often think "why is Elon talking about THAT" as it is seemingly out of his expertise but after witnessing many examples, it seems Elon ponders many more subjects than are reflected in his existing businesses.

larrys 12y ago
I'm sure he's good at delegating. But in order to go to meetings and make good decisions there is still a ton of info to keep on top of. And people to talk to. Now multiple that by three. We're not talking about running a restaurant chain here or a discount store. We're talking about three businesses that require the type of high level knowledge and attention that is difficult for any single person to do. No matter who they are.

waterlesscloud 12y ago

How many things is Google trying to do, and in how many fields? How is that effectively different? Also, this comment supports my thesis that any comment using "Period." or "End of story." is overstated at best, and wrong at worst.

leeber 12y ago
You have a great thesis. Period.
larrys 12y ago
Not a fair comparison to google which is a company Musk is a person and the story isn't framed as "Musk Company branching into xyz" but "Elon Musk" branching into different companies. Separately google is highly profitable and can afford to take fliers in many areas and needs to do so in order to diversify, different situation. A "Musk Company" branching into different areas might be compared to GE having different divisions all managed in a way with the corporate structure centralized but in that case the head of GE isn't a tech visionary and isn't involved in anything within the particular company like it at least appears to be with Musk. Likewise with Berkshire Hathaway for that matter. Gotta tell you that in a sense it's almost like, get this, a ponzi scheme you keep spinning up new hope and investor money to keep things going and think you'll figure it out later down the road.