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Elon Musk & # 39; s chatter About two weeks ago, Tesla personally ignited a firestorm around his health and the demanding nature of his work. "The last year was the most difficult and painful year in my career," he admitted in an open-hearted manner interview with The New York Times. & nbsp;Musk described the extreme working conditions under which he worked and the toll it required in his personal life. He worked three or four consecutive days in the workplace, never left the site and never went outside. He worked through the past anniversary well after midnight, without seeing friends or family. And he almost missed the marriage of his brother, where he would be the best man.
On the one hand, the extraordinary work ethic of Musk has borne fruit. Tesla recently reported have hit the production goals of Model 3. & nbsp; On the other hand, there remain questions about whether success in the past will be sustainable in the long term. According to Musk, while the operational difficulties encountered by Tesla have largely been resolved, he does not foresee an end to the personal toll he will have to bear. "[F]From a personal pain point of view, the worst still has to come. "
(Photo credit must read ROBYN BECK / AFP / Getty Images)
In the midst of the news, Arianna Huffington, the spokesman for sleep, came up with one public letter admonishing Musk & # 39; s sleeping habits. & nbsp;She begged Musk to look at science. Sleep is vitally important for performance, she explained. A well-intentioned message, but is the solution so simple? Musk replied via Twitter: "Ford & Tesla is the only 2 American auto companies that want to avoid bankruptcy, I just came home from the factory, you think this is an option, it is not."
And to be honest, I agree with that. More sleep may be a good solution in theory, but I have never offered it in practice. Never in my working life did I ever hear a manager say that a team gets more sleep when more work needs to be done. For anyone who has been in the position to work consecutive weeks of 100 hours, when you are in the middle, there is really no other option. When work rises, sleep is one of the easiest things to circumvent.
Nobody talks about the hefty toll that this takes on our health. But the way work has evolved in the last 20th and 21st centuries has made it impossible for us to disconnect. If we could, we would do that. But with greater interconnectedness both locally and globally, work now follows us everywhere. In addition, the total hours are often rewarded & nbsp; instead of the productivity per hour. The standard is log in after work. The standard works until well into the night to get something done. The standard is a number of hours on a Sunday. If you really think that you are not willing to do these things, a company will easily wonder whether you are committed to the job. (I know, I tried.)
This kind of pressure only escalates the further you go. And Musk seems to be in the midst of such a storm. But he is not the first CEO to be put under such pressure. In his biography, Steve Jobs (Simon & Schuster, 2011), Walter Isaacson documented the enormous pressure that Steve Jobs felt when he supervised Pixar and Apple as interim CEO. Jobs attributed this period to the emergence of his health problems:
"It was rough, very rough, the worst time in my life, I had a young family, I had Pixar, I was going to work at seven, and at nine o'clock in the evening I would be back, and the kids I could not talk, I could not literally, I was so exhausted, I could not talk to Laurene, I could only watch TV and vegetate for half an hour, and it almost killed me. 39;
And yet, despite the toll, Jobs still continued his work above all else. "My passion was to build a sustainable company where people were motivated to produce great products, everything else was secondary." Working hard for hard work is foolish. But superhuman performance is often driven by much more than the pursuit of personal glory or motivation for money. This was the core of Jobs's drive. & Nbsp;
"What motivates me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to benefit from the work done by others before us … All I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders on which we And many of us want to contribute something to our species and add something to the flow, it's about trying to express something in the only way that most of us know, because we do not have Bob Dylan or Tom Stoppard numbers. We can try to use the talents we have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation for all the contributions that have been presented to us and to add something to that flow, which has driven me. "
Musk is no stranger to this dynamic. But the constant criticism and the current business environment often& nbsp; contributing to problems that can be overcome as additional obstacles for companies. We want to consistently protest rather than support. And then continue with the presentation of plaster solutions. It is a bit like placing an animal in a polluted or abandoned environment and then telling that he needs to sleep more to survive. Such a wasteland resembles Musk's spirit.
Today, almost two weeks after his notorious tweet, Musk tweeted "Death by Water,"A section of T.S. Eliot The Waste Land, a poem about the intellectual and cultural decline of the modern world.
Phlebas the Phoenician, two weeks dead,
Forgot the cry of seagulls and the deep sea swells
And the profit and the loss.
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Picked his bones in whisper. When he got up and fell
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Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and
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"Two weeks dead." Does Musk lie to himself? Does he imply that the last two weeks of speculation have caused more damage than good? And profit and loss – forgotten once we die – a short-sighted but persistent conversation topic that plagued Tesla. Lyricism ends with the idea that even the greatest among us, even those who think they know best, are still hearty. We all die, both literally and figuratively.
Whether the short lyrics are a deliberate allusion to Musk & # 39; s life or not, & nbsp; it reminds us that it is easy to sit from far away, to poke and poke a company like Tesla. But the people who point the finger can not convincingly say that they know better. & Nbsp; And by focusing on the details, & nbsp; they accidentally lose the & nbsp; bigger goal out of sight.
Not all companies can claim to have a virtuous mission. For those who do, they might be better off without & nbsp; a bleak Greek chorus. & Nbsp;
Follow Stephanie Denning on Twitter:& Nbsp;@stephdenning
And also read:
How Jeff Bezos has great people
Obama, about how we can pursue our goal
The key to Nelson Mandela's leadership
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Elon Musk & # 39; s chatter About two weeks ago, Tesla personally ignited a firestorm around his health and the demanding nature of his work. "The last year was the most difficult and painful year in my career," he admitted in an outspoken interview with The New York Times. Musk described the extreme working conditions under which he worked and the toll it required in his personal life. He worked three or four consecutive days in the workplace, never left the site or went outside. He worked through a recent birthday well after midnight, without seeing friends or family. And he almost missed the marriage of his brother, where he would be the best man.
On the one hand, the extraordinary work ethic of Musk has borne fruit. Recently, Tesla reported that it had achieved the production objectives of Model 3. On the other hand, there remain questions about whether success in the past will be sustainable in the long term. According to Musk, while the operational difficulties encountered by Tesla have largely been resolved, he does not foresee an end to the personal toll he will have to bear. "[F]From a personal pain point of view, the worst still has to come. "
(Photo credit must read ROBYN BECK / AFP / Getty Images)
In the midst of the news, Arianna Huffington, the sleeping spokesman, came up with a public letter that reproached Musk's sleep habits. She begged Musk to look at science. Sleep is vitally important for performance, she explained. A well-intentioned message, but is the solution so simple? Musk replied via Twitter: "Ford & Tesla are the only two American auto companies that want to avoid bankruptcy, I just came home from the factory, you think this is an option, it is not."
And to be honest, I agree with that. More sleep may be a good solution in theory, but I have never offered it in practice. Never in my working life did I ever hear a manager say that a team gets more sleep when more work needs to be done. For anyone who has been in the position to work consecutive weeks of 100 hours, when you are in the middle, there is really no other option. When work rises, sleep is one of the easiest things to circumvent.
Nobody talks about the hefty toll that this takes on our health. But the way work has evolved in the last 20th and 21st century has made it impossible for us to disconnect. If we could, we would do that. But with greater interconnectedness both locally and globally, work now follows us everywhere. Moreover, the total hours are often rewarded instead of the productivity per hour. The standard is log in after work. The standard works until well into the night to get something done. The standard is a number of hours on a Sunday. If you really think that you are not willing to do these things, a company will easily wonder whether you are committed to the job. (I know, I tried.)
This kind of pressure only escalates the further you go. And Musk seems to be in the midst of such a storm. But he is not the first CEO to be put under such pressure. In his biography, Steve Jobs (Simon & Schuster, 2011), Walter Isaacson documented the enormous pressure that Steve Jobs felt when he supervised Pixar and Apple as interim CEO. Jobs attributed this period to the emergence of his health problems:
"It was rough, very rough, the worst time in my life, I had a young family, I had Pixar, I was going to work at seven, and at nine o'clock in the evening I would be back, and the kids I could not talk, I could not literally, I was so exhausted, I could not talk to Laurene, I could only watch TV and vegetate for half an hour, and it almost killed me. 39;
And yet, despite the toll, Jobs still continued his work above all else. "My passion was to build a sustainable company where people were motivated to produce great products, everything else was secondary." Working hard for hard work is foolish. But superhuman performance is often driven by much more than the pursuit of personal glory or motivation for money. This was the core of Jobs & # 39; drive.
"What motivates me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to benefit from the work done by others before us … All I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders on which we And many of us want to contribute something to our species and add something to the flow, it's about trying to express something in the only way that most of us know, because we do not have Bob Dylan or Tom Stoppard numbers. We can try to use the talents we have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation for all the contributions that have been presented to us and to add something to that flow, which has driven me. "
Musk is no stranger to this dynamic. But the constant criticism and the current business environment often contributing to problems that are additional obstacles for companies to overcome. We want to consistently protest rather than support. And then continue with the presentation of plaster solutions. It is a bit like placing an animal in a polluted or abandoned environment and then telling that he needs to sleep more to survive. Such a wasteland resembles Musk's spirit.
Today, almost two weeks after his notorious tweet, Musk tweeted "Death by Water,"A section of T.S. Eliot The Waste Land, a poem about the intellectual and cultural decline of the modern world.
Phlebas the Phoenician, two weeks dead,
Forgot the cry of seagulls and the deep sea swells
And the profit and the loss.
A current under the sea
Picked his bones in whisper. When he got up and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Enter the vortex.
Heather or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look at it
windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and
long as you.
"Two weeks dead." Does Musk lie to himself? Does he imply that the last two weeks of speculation have caused more damage than good? And profit and loss – forgotten once we die – a short-sighted but persistent conversation topic that plagued Tesla. Lyricism ends with the idea that even the greatest among us, even those who think they know best, are basically the same. We all die, both literally and figuratively.
Whether the short lyrics are a deliberate allusion to Musk & # 39; s life or not, it serves as a reminder that it is easy to sit from far away, to poke and poke a company like Tesla. But the people who point the finger can not convincingly say that they know better. And by focusing on the details, they accidentally lose sight of the bigger goal.
Not all companies can claim to have a virtuous mission. For those who do, they might be better off without a bleak Greek chorus.
Follow Stephanie Denning on Twitter: @stephdenning
And also read:
How Jeff Bezos has great people
Obama, about how we can pursue our goal
The key to Nelson Mandela's leadership