One reason Elon Musk is so successful is that he expects his employees to work hard, and he gets rid of those who don’t. From Jeffrey A. Tucker at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
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No question that Elon Musk is a genius but his real power lies with his common sense. These days this is a rare quality in business. People in higher levels of corporate achievement today are so propagandized from college onward with newspeak and baloneythink that they cannot recall the basics.
That’s a major reason why corporate culture went off the rails and made itself vulnerable to all kinds of ridiculous ideological penchants that have nothing to do with productivity and profitability.
I’m most intrigued by Elon’s approach to staffing. When he first came to Twitter, he fired 3 out of 5 employees within a few weeks. Operating based on instinct, his goal was to toss out anyone whose work consists of overseeing others, scheduling meetings, and otherwise preening around as someone in charge. Whole teams were tossed out. His next level of fires consisted of those whose job was entirely made up and had nothing to do with the business goal.
Those standards meant firing most employees. And guess what? The site worked better immediately, and development of features took off at an incredible pace. Over the course of a year, he turned Twitter from being an amusement to becoming the essential tool that is X, easily the most valuable social-media space on the entire internet.
The most important element consisted in cleaning house. Draining the swamp, to echo a phrase.
So it is in nearly every U.S. firm of any medium or large size. Financial conditions since the turn of the millennium have favored puffed up labor forces plus huge salaries. The low-interest-rate environment meant endless credit and that in turn puffed up valuations. Management came to believe that all problems can be solved by hurling more human bodies at them, all the better if these people had credentials.
There was a CPUSA (D) comradette minion who said that the only thing worse than being exploited (employed) was not being exploited or unemployed.
It is often wrongly attributed to comrade Lenin.
Baphomet shoulder pads FEW Elon will go to the lamenting wall with incomplete hat or he will be unemployed? (snarkle)
Just reading at TBP how Emmanuel Trumpstein is not the savior and could go full Franco if (s)elected.
It could even be the crackdown portion of anarcho-tyranny or the order out of chaos?
Breaking from South Park:
Gluten free ebola has given everyone AIDS and you must go fund yourself in the safe space while watching purple haired Disney yass queens!