Organizational culture

Elon Musk

5-step protocol¹

1. Make the requirements less dumb.
2. Try and delete part of the process.
3. Simplify and optimize the design (don't optimize something that shouldn't exist).
4. Accelerate cycle time (but don’t go faster until you've worked on the other three things first).
5. Automate (if a product is reaching the end of a production line with a high acceptance rate, there is no need for in-process testing).

Hiring

• If candidate was responsible for- and struggled with a very difficult problem then they really understand the problem, and they don't forget.
• Decision making process at key transition points of difficult problems.

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1. Jeff Haden (2023), Elon Musk's 'Algorithm,' a 5-Step Process. ↩