The thing is, Elon does come off as a bit of a slave driver at times. SpaceX is flashy and important enough to get talented people to work as hard as he wants them to. But Twitter? I dunno.
Good. Imposing a culture of hard work is something that is missing from most modern companies.
If you can't keep up than resign and let someone with skills take over instead of the female / gay / minority that got handed a cushy position to do nothing.
You absolutely need to trim the bullshit do nothing positions, don't get me wrong, but there are only so many of the super driven wunderkind engineers that Elon is probably used to in the world and they aren't gonna flock to twitter. Most people just wanna do their hours and go home.
It also shouldn't be an indictment for someone to want a normal 40 hour workweek. I can value my job and the work I do and still want to have a life outside of it. Also, just because someone works more hours doesn't mean they're actually more productive.
The people who work at Elon's companyies are nutheads. They're ultra passionate about that stuff. If you don't want to work there, there is nothing stopping you.
That's exactly the problem. It's easy to be an ultra passionate nutjob about space travel. Nobody is going to be an ultra passionate nutjob about Twitter, and so if Elon is looking for those people he'll struggle.
Pay is part of it, but there's more to it than that. Crucially, if you want to get people to work hard, you need to give them work that's meaningful. Talented people don't want to be cogs in the ubiquitous social media machine that acts as a grey cloud over everyone's head, they want to be a part of the cutting edge of humanity's development.
Yeah I don't think you can change it overnight. Particularly absent doing anything other than demanding it and offering to fire everybody. Now if you want everybody to quit/get fired this is probably a reasonable strategy for doing that. Otherwise, I don't think Mr Musk is a management genius. If this worked, more people would be doing it.
The thing is, Elon does come off as a bit of a slave driver at times. SpaceX is flashy and important enough to get talented people to work as hard as he wants them to. But Twitter? I dunno.
Good. Imposing a culture of hard work is something that is missing from most modern companies.
If you can't keep up than resign and let someone with skills take over instead of the female / gay / minority that got handed a cushy position to do nothing.
You absolutely need to trim the bullshit do nothing positions, don't get me wrong, but there are only so many of the super driven wunderkind engineers that Elon is probably used to in the world and they aren't gonna flock to twitter. Most people just wanna do their hours and go home.
It also shouldn't be an indictment for someone to want a normal 40 hour workweek. I can value my job and the work I do and still want to have a life outside of it. Also, just because someone works more hours doesn't mean they're actually more productive.
The people who work at Elon's companyies are nutheads. They're ultra passionate about that stuff. If you don't want to work there, there is nothing stopping you.
Elon doesn't want people who will do a 9-5.
That's exactly the problem. It's easy to be an ultra passionate nutjob about space travel. Nobody is going to be an ultra passionate nutjob about Twitter, and so if Elon is looking for those people he'll struggle.
Actually there are ultra passionate nutjobs at Twitter. That's why it turned into what it is.
Its just not the kind of ultra passionate nutjobs that worship Elon's vision.
Pay is part of it, but there's more to it than that. Crucially, if you want to get people to work hard, you need to give them work that's meaningful. Talented people don't want to be cogs in the ubiquitous social media machine that acts as a grey cloud over everyone's head, they want to be a part of the cutting edge of humanity's development.
Yeah I don't think you can change it overnight. Particularly absent doing anything other than demanding it and offering to fire everybody. Now if you want everybody to quit/get fired this is probably a reasonable strategy for doing that. Otherwise, I don't think Mr Musk is a management genius. If this worked, more people would be doing it.