Musk on meetings

Anand Sanwal from CB Insights (I almost always read his emails) shared an email Musk sent to the Tesla team. Fingers crossed, as Sanwal said, that this isn’t urban legend, as it’s the only thing I’ve ever nodded to positively that’s emanated from Musk. Maybe if a Tesla was within my reach that would be different. But anyway, the email was about meetings and productivity. Top line rules: 1) Avoid large meetings; 2) Leave a meeting if you’re not contributing; 3) Forget the chain of command (big thumbs up to this rule); 4) Be clear, not clever (my favourite); 5) Ditch frequent meetings (I hate weekly “touch base” meetings that always get moved); 6) Pick common sense (makes sense). Wouldn’t argue with any of it in fact. And then there’s other stuff Musk says and does…