Year 12 IB Extended Essays 2018

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More importantly is the talent and knowledge filled in SpaceX’s atmosphere. This mastery opportunity is provided at SpaceX. To engineers, this is extremely valuable because they are able to learn from each other and this is probably one of the key attributes from Musk which attributes to SpaceX’s success. A limitation Musk has is avoiding critics against his visions and ideas. If Musk overdoes this, it would distort reality in his thoughts. This often results into delusional and ignorance, and employees would disregard his purpose Musk believes that traditional chains of command that most companies adopt is ‘incredibly dumb’. “Instead of a problem getting solved quickly… people are forced to talk to their manager who talks to their manager… Then the info has to flow back the other way again. This is incredibly dumb. Any manager who allows this to happen… will soon find themselves working at another company.” – Elon Musk 25 Instead, Musk focuses on communication that is both effective and efficient in the organisation. He says that: “Anyone at Tesla can and should email/talk to anyone else…,” he wrote. “You can talk to your manager’s manager without his permission, you can talk directly to a VP in another dept, you can talk to me….” -Elon Musk 26 Corporate Communication

25 Libby Kane, "In Internal Tesla Memo, Elon Musk Says The Way Most Companies Communicate Is 'Incredibly Dumb'", Business Insider Australia, Last modified 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com.au/tesla-elon-musk-how-to- communicate-2017-8?r=US&IR=T. Web. 1 Oct. 2018. 26 Justin Bariso, "This Email From Elon Musk To Tesla Employees Describes What Great Communication Looks Like", Inc.Com, Last modified 2018, https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/this-email-from-elon-musk-to-tesla-employees- descr.html. Web. 14 April.