[frickinLasers]

> His manage-by-trolling technique is demonstrably effective in industry.

Or are his companies successful despite that? The impression I get is that his direct reports are exceptionally good managers and shield the companies from his dumbest moves. Except at Twitter--that's lost, what, 75% of its value? (still works as a political platform for him though)

[Vilian]

Considering that twitter never profited since he took over, nah

[ganoushoreilly]

"Twitter" wasn't profitable when he bought it so I'm not sure this is a fair comparison.

[pizlonator]

That’s exactly what I mean by manage by trolling. He forces his directs to be good by trolling them with idiotic ideas.

I don’t condone manage by trolling; it’s not how I want to manage or be managed. But it seems to have worked out for his industrial complex.

[jhloa2]

So he fosters competence with his incompetence? Seems like it would work just as well without him except for marketing. I'm impressed with Tesla and SpaceX as a whole, but from what I've heard, he hasn't been heavily involved with day to day decisions for more than a decade. From my perspective, his role is to be a hype man that consistently over promises and under delivers.