>>13384449>What exactly do they do differently?They make decisions quickly and decisively.
Meetings are something you show up to if you need to be there. If you don't need to be there anymore, you are expected to get up and leave.
Tasks are delegated, but not to committees.
They are mission focused: "Does this get us to Mars sooner?"
Efforts are made to make sure people don't waste time figuring out jargon.
Decisiveness means that if a decision that was made turns out to be a bad decision, they go back and start over again without hesitation. The sunk cost fallacy is the enemy.
They are aggressive; they don't let people tell them "don't be hasty," and consider taking things slowly and steadily to be an obstacle to actually getting anything done. It took time to make this attitude jive with NASA's extremely methodical standards for human space flight, but they made it work, somehow.
Decision making is done by Elon Musk. Elon Musk listens to everybody. Steering and dominating the conversation instead of making useful contributions is 'being an asshole' and that gets you fired, no matter what level you are in the company.
