The serial entrepreneur knows that excessive meetings are a sign of poorly run companies. He believes there needs to be a constant battle against bureaucracy.
Already a subscriber?There’s plenty to dislike about Elon Musk. He sucks up to dictators, including Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping; reportedly has sex with junior staff, and promotes them; spreads conspiracy tropes; andBut there’s one Musk practice that deserves to be taken seriously: his jihad on meetings.“Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time,” he once wrote in a memo to Tesla employees.
In big companies, meetings are part of process that weighs internal interests. Decisions are often made based on participants’ influence rather than their merits. Important meetings are where internal forces fight it out. Every meeting had to start with the acknowledgment of this determination, as though it was 1939 and Brussels was Berlin.As a founder, Musk has absolute power over his companies. He considers any meeting that doesn’t help the business pointless. At Tesla, employees are told to leave meetings they aren’t helping.
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