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There's an interesting job interview question: do you want to be more like Woz or S. Jobs? Elon Musk's management style is very Jobs-like: Motivates via manipulation and wow-factor of cutting edge, has grand visions, yet knows what factories and the market can and can't handle, tries odd drugs, etc. However, Jobs rarely stuck his nose into politics; Jobs mostly just trolled about tech.

[MetaWhirledPeas]

I'm definitely a Woz. I appreciate both Jobs and Musk despite their blemishes, but I must say where Musk has Jobs beat is vision. Jobs was content to give everyone a computer. Musk is trying to bring the optimistic future to life on all fronts.

[crowbahr]

Job's vision was seeing that hardware and software vertically integrated had a strong position in the market, despite being told to sell off the hardware division and focus on OS work. His vision was to never give out dividends or buy back stock: always plough the money right back into the company.

Musk has the unbound optimism of his ability to succeed. He's good at selling that optimism to others. His decision making is often heavily seated by public opinion and the market.

Also the whole fascism thing.

Of the two Jobs actually accomplished what he sets out to do. Musk's batting record is more spotty. He's got some wins (Falcon 9) but boy howdy does he have a lot of losses, and he's just gearing up to take increasingly more L's