Here are a few productivity recommendations from a 2018 email by Elon Musk to All Tesla Employees:
- Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time.
- Also get rid of frequent meetings, unless you are dealing with an extremely urgent matter.
- Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value.
- Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software, or processes at Tesla.
- Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the “chain of command.”
- A major source of issues is poor communication between departments.
- In general, always pick common sense as your guide.
If there is something you think should be done to make Tesla execute better or allow you to look forward to coming to work more (same thing in the long term), please send a note to [redacted].
Thanks for being such a kickass team and accomplishing miracles every day. It matters. We are burning the midnight oil to burn the midnight oil.
Elon
