In addition to the well-known Tesla, Elon Musk also manages rocket launch company SpeceX and solar company SolarCity, all of which are linked to Musk's "Colonize Mars" program.
In the home of traditional auto giants, Tesla is the only successful car startup in the United States for more than 90 years, and its market value now greatly exceeds that of car companies such as General Motors, Ford and BMW.
Musk is also an expert in rocket science, engineering, physics, artificial intelligence, solar energy, energy and other fields, and he founded and led companies such as SpaceX, Tesla, neural technology company Neuralink, and "Boring Company", all of which are pioneers in the field of innovation.
Because of his remarkable business achievements and huge wealth achieved quickly and efficiently, Musk has been called the "Iron Man" of Silicon Valley, and he has been named the most inspiring leader in technology.
Some believe that since Jobs's death, Musk has been the innovation leader of the new world. And unlike Jobs's extreme "focus," Musk has been successful in areas such as the Internet, electric vehicles, sustainable energy and recyclable rockets.
Re-election Zhengfei also said that Musk is very good at innovation.
For Musk's amazing achievements and successes, some people envy and some people are not convinced. Recently, someone posted on the Internet that Musk's father owned the "emerald mine", allowing Musk to enjoy the most superior "privileged education", and then Musk was so powerful.
"None of this is true, my father didn't have an emerald mine," Musk retorted, adding that he had finished college by working part-time and ended up in a $100,000 student loan. When he started Zip2, he couldn't even afford a second computer, so he could only use one computer to program at night and run the website during the day.
In fact, Musk's relationship with his father is not very good, Musk was born in South Africa, his father is a very stubborn person, and Musk was very lonely when he was a child, and he could only spend time by reading on his own. Even after his success, Musk is still troubled by the inability to change his father's concept.
Heck, having such a gifted son isn't happy, and I don't know what Musk's dad thinks.
Gossip is gossip, we should still be more concerned about Musk's management, after all, people's talent is not learned, but Musk can manage three world-class companies (and 5 children, worship), or quite inspiring entrepreneurs. ‘
Moreover, this should be able to be done through training, such as Lei Jun managing xiaomi, Jinshan and Shunwei investment companies at the same time, Lei Jun's secret is very simple, previously introduced - can ignore the things that can be ignored.
So what did Musk do?
1, Musk in addition to the president likes to tweet (Twitter governance vs Twitter governance company?) Musk also often emails all employees.
In this regard, Musk believes that this is an important channel for him to communicate with employees, he can pass on his ideas and ideas to everyone, and the free flow of information will also promote teamwork and work efficiently.
"I found that I could stay with them by email so that I could stay with them continuously and work at the same time. If I can't do it, I can't do my job. ”
Maybe we have to learn this, not necessarily to send e-mail, but it is still possible to improve the flow of information within the company.
2. Time control.
The average person's work week is about 40 hours, while Musk's work week can be as long as 100 hours.
That is to say, regardless of the quality of work, Musk surpasses us in terms of "quantity" alone, so that cumulatively, Musk's workload is more than twice ours - from the perspective of the whole life.
Therefore, what is also talking about "996", I am really ashamed, the same is entrepreneurship, we not only have no one who is smart and innovative, but also in the stupid kung fu is not comparable.
Musk has said that his time is used according to "5 minutes" a unit, a segment, for example, his lunch time is controlled within 5 minutes. It is said that Lei Jun eats a box lunch for three minutes, well, and gets to a point, as if he is one step closer to the big guy.
In addition, Musk attaches great importance to his time, so he does not like to repeat himself every day, according to his schedule, his daily work is almost not the same, he switches back and forth in three or four projects, and leaves it to his family on Saturdays and Sundays (as well as fitness, reading and other activities).
To be honest this is not easy to learn, I have tried, switching between multitasking is very difficult. Usually the brain is a mess, and things are a mess.
Therefore, we learn to improve the efficiency of time, multi-tasking and what depends on talent, it is difficult for ordinary people to cultivate successfully. I see that there are high monks and high people in history, maybe there is a way?
3. First principles
This is a big name, which is a very important way for Musk to think. In his words, it is to put the laws of physics on its side.
For the laws of physics are deterministic, reliable, and independent of the will of man.
Musk made Tesla and SpacX using this principle. For example, many people have said that Tesla batteries are decomposed into lithium, cobalt, aluminum, copper, steel and other metals.
In fact, in terms of business, Musk's cognition and ability can also be called a genius, "a CEO, need to really focus on the product side, dialogue with users, insight into the real idea behind the language, this is the most important." ”
The essence of the so-called first principle is to think independently, not to follow the current, not to be disturbed by appearances and worldly prejudices, and to rely on objective laws and basic facts to make judgments and decisions.
All in all, if we can stay on the level in team communication, time management, and objective decision-making, then our entrepreneurship can definitely be a little closer to success.
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