At a meeting of all hands on Thursday, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk encouraged workers to stay on their shares.Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
Elon Musk in Tesla in the evening is a reminder that he can escape more than other CEOs.
Having a late last -minute meeting also risks an unorganized appearance, a leadership expert said.
Meeting Tesla workers was a reminder of Musk’s All-In approach to work.
Any other CEO would have an emergency with five alarms.
Still, the recent last hour after hours of the last hour with Tesla workers was a reminder that the company of the company-can only be free from the norms that other chiefs adhere to, can escape with a lot.
The big question is: How much?
Although over the years he has been convinced by employees to work in tents and sleep in the office, his freedom with workers, investors and clients is not endless, before Business Insider over Business Insider.
“There is no version where he is in these many things at once, and that is going well,” said Will Shrotter, founder and CEO of StarTups.com, a technology accelerator, in front of BI.
He pointed to the pure number of articles in the list of tasks of Musk-control of half a dozen companies, including Tesla, X and SpaceX, to an attempt to process the federal government.
Musk’s decision to hold a meeting throughout the company with a small notice, which started around 9:00 pm in Austin – after Tech Blitches delayed the start – he sends several negative signals, said Melissa Schilling, Professor of Management and Organizations at Stern School of Business at New York.
Shilling, who studied Musk’s career and business, told BI that they were a sense of insecurity.
“This is a really dangerous position for someone so central to the brand,” Shilling said.
Starting a meeting, when routine bedtime procedures can be performed, can the moral of workers be passed.
If you signal the employees that their time is not valuable, “you really damage this connection,” she said.
It is one thing to attack some corporate norms in the early stages of a company, but Musk has gone through this honeymoon, according to Shilling.
“His actions are affecting too many people now to get out of the behavior of the boys they will marry,” she said.
Musk did not respond to a request for a comment from BI.
Shrotter said that Musk often benefits from doubt, but that if he had to deal with a major crisis, such as Tesla shares, falling by 80% of their high December (they were reduced by about 50%), the Musk Stans would be less forgiving.
In this case, “you should not screw up to the government and make cuts,” said Shrotter, citing Musk’s other role of Donald Trump’s Ministry of Government.
This is not the first time Musk’s attitude to work has attracted attention.
The most rich man in the world has said he slept on the floor at the Tesla factory when the company was sunk in a “production hell” for his model 3. He also said he collapsed on the couch while in the height of the Twitter redirect at X.
Although some of the founder’s regimes are flourishing is part of Musk’s operational model, Shilling said that Tesla’s evening meeting implies unprepared and that he only realized with delay that something important was happening in the company.
Tesla has suffered recent cases of vandalism on his vehicles and in his showrooms, which he attributes to those in the political left and slide in stocks.
The shares of the car manufacturer regained a certain Friday as investors seemed heard from Musk’s message during the meeting on Thursday. In it, he asks the workers to hang on their shares and talk about the company’s cybercarp.
One of the reasons for Musk to swing a last -minute evening meeting, which in almost any other company would raise eyebrows or worrying staff, is that most people already expect him to be “a little chaotic” and everything else, but not traditionally, even Clark, a communication coach he teaches at the Colombia Business School.
“This is a person who smokes a drug in Joe Rogan’s show,” she told BI.
Clark said that Musk’s long -standing reputation as an improvisational, emotional CEO can thin out the possible concerns that he is unstable.
She said the meeting may have sent a message to the employees that Musk is still paying attention and taking care of her companies.
Still, Clark said that this in itself probably would not be enough to continue to release workers and moods of investors without further action to show that he was dealing with the challenges in Tesla.
Shrotter, who runs the technology accelerator, said Musk’s decision to speak directly with workers is more effective than sending an email or relies on a team of corporate Comms.
“There is something different when you stand in front of people, even if it is on Zoom, where they see you to speak, they see you emotion,” Shrotter said.
This is a way to show that you share their concerns, he said. Still, said Shrotter, how many leaders can ask for workers, often bind from “how ready they are to follow you through a fire.”
He said that for Musk, as Apple co -founder Steve Jobs, workers’ loyalty is often high enough that employees will strive to meet high expectations, including long hours.
“There is only one Musk Elon,” he said. “It’s not a fan of him at all. I just call him what he is.”
Shroter said Musk’s records show that he usually goes forward, but that “99.9% of CEOs” do not have the luxury of asking as much as he was.
“The people who follow him – the people who work for him – believe in the cult of the Elon,” Shrotter said. “Most founders or CEOs have nowhere close to this type of pull.”
