- Musk has asked staff to cut down on the number of meetings they hold, writing: “Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time.” WFC managers wastes unlimited time holding unproductive ritualistic meetings to exert control over employees, and to attempt to validate their worth to their own higher-ups.
- He also said staff should be able to walk out of meetings that they don’t feel are valuable, explaining: “It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.” “Please get [out] of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to the whole audience, in which case keep them very short.” Townhall anyone??? Narcissistic political-speak BS, false promises from out-of-touch leaders, softball questions….
- Employees must also be as ‘direct’ as possible and not ‘use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software, or processes’. WFC would fall apart without their acronyms and abbreviations. How many times do you have to decode which department/division a document is referring to? I have personal knowledge of a department who did not want to change it’s name in order for it to better describe it’s current function because the new name wouldn’t result in a good acronym. True story.
- Still on the communication front, Musk has advised staff to avoid speaking through a ‘chain of command’ and instead approach a person directly. The billionaire wrote: “Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done. Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.” Chain of command and hierarchy are demanded at WFC, in even when it most often leads to a breakdown in communication.
- Also another key rule for the Tesla founder is common sense, such as not ‘following a company rule that is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation’. Our HR Dept is founded on ridiculous rules and policies, even when we are sued and fined for them.