One of the Best Three-and-a-Half-Minute Commentaries of the Year

One of the Best Three-and-a-Half-Minute Commentaries of the Year
One of the Best Three-and-a-Half-Minute Commentaries of the Year

This is one of the best three and half minute commentaries of this year.

Reminds me of Louis Gerstner's Book "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance" about IBM's turnaround and a quick story on him coming in -

"...Gerstner tells of asking one of IBM's most senior executives to give him a detailed analysis of a money-losing business. Three days later, when he asked about it, the exec said: "I'll check with the team and get back to you." ...After two more similar responses, Gerstner told the exec: "Why don't you just give me the name of the person doing the work. I'll speak directly to him."

He explained that senior executives at IBM were expected to preside, to review but did not do the work. One of his key changes; they had to do the work from that point on.

It was a cultural change not a work ethic change.

Business cultures need to be driven by execution and how it works - you need to understand the problems.

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Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk: “I think probably the single biggest question in all of business right now is: why don't more CEOs operate the way that he does?”

"The top-line thing is just this incredible devotion from the leader of the company to fully, deeply understand what the company does, and to be completely knowledgeable about every aspect of it."

"To be in the trenches and talking directly to the people who do the work, deeply understanding the issues, and being the key, lead problem solver in the organization."

"What Elon does is—he shows up every week at each of his companies, he identifies the biggest problem that the company's having that week, and he fixes it. He does that every week for 52 weeks in a row. And then each of his companies has solved the 52 biggest problems that year, in that year."

"The side effect of it is—he attracts many of the best people in the world to work with him. Because if you work with Elon, the expectations are through the roof in terms of your level of performance."

Source: Chris Williamson Insightful

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