New Delhi: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is a genius and the whole world agrees upon it. Nobody will mind taking a suggestion or two from him. Recently, Gabriel Gruber, owner of the real estate portal ‘properati.com’, shared with his followers some of Musk’s suggestio.
Here’s the seven suggestions from Elon Musk to increase productivity.
Elon believes excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and “almost always” get worse over time.
7 productivity recommendations by @elonmusk:
1) Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time. Please get of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to the whole audience in which case keep them very short.
— Gabriel Gruber (@GabrielGruber) May 6, 2021
Tesla CEO says companies should do away with extra meetings unless its about an urgent matter.
2) Also get rid of frequent meetings, unless you are dealing with an extremely urgent matter. Meeting frequency should drop rapidly once the urgent matter is resolved.
— Gabriel Gruber (@GabrielGruber) May 6, 2021
Elon says an individual needs to add value to a conversation or a meeting, otherwise one should drop out of a call or a meeting the moment they realize that they aren’t adding anything new.
3) Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value. It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.
— Gabriel Gruber (@GabrielGruber) May 6, 2021
Musk is not a fan of acronyms and hence he advises against use of them for objects, software or processes at Tesla.
4) Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software or processes at Tesla. In general, anything that requires an explanation inhibits communication. We don’t want people to have to memorize a glossary just to function at Tesla.
— Gabriel Gruber (@GabrielGruber) May 6, 2021
He also believes that communication should be done through the shortest path necessary to get the job done, instead of a “chain of command”.
5) Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the “chain of command”. Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.
— Gabriel Gruber (@GabrielGruber) May 6, 2021
SpaceX CEO sees poor communication between departments as a major source of issues, and that there should be a free flow of information allowed between all levels.
6) A major source of issues is poor communication between depts. The way to solve this is allow free flow of information between all levels. If, in order to get something done between depts, an individual contributor has to talk to their manager, who talks to a director
— Gabriel Gruber (@GabrielGruber) May 6, 2021
who talks to a VP, who talks to another VP, who talks to a director, who talks to a manager, who talks to someone doing the actual work, then super dumb things will happen. It must be ok for people to talk directly and just make the right thing happen
— Gabriel Gruber (@GabrielGruber) May 6, 2021
Musk also says that people should always pick common sense as their guide.
7) In general, always pick common sense as your guide. If following a “company rule” is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, such that it would make for a great Dilbert cartoon, then the rule should change.https://t.co/xfeCYxZx21
— Gabriel Gruber (@GabrielGruber) May 6, 2021
Elon Musk who usually responds to the tweets, responded to this thread also, but in just one word – ‘Exactly’
The Tesla CEO, who actively responds to tweets, this time, had just one word for the seven recommendations Mr Gruber listed out. “Exactly,” said Mr Musk, reacting to the thread.
Exactly
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2021
