Tech icon Elon Musk has led Tesla and SpaceX to the forefront of success.
Now he has unveiled advice that should make CEOs around the world prick up their ears.
Tesla boss Elon Musk * is
currently attracting a lot of attention
with his new
Gigafactory in Grünheide near Berlin
.
It is not only the controversial clearing work on the company premises that keep making headlines.
Employees from all over Germany are also increasingly focusing on the newly created jobs.
After all,
up to 40,000 employees should
find a job
here in the long term
- from painters to IT professionals.
The first application rounds are already running.
Now the successful company boss has a valuable tip ready for all CEOs.
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Elon Musk's tip: listen carefully to critics
As Elon Musk recently revealed at the Wall Street Journal CEO Summit, company bosses should heed one piece of advice if they want to get started with their company:
listen carefully - especially the critics
.
Because this is the only way they are able to develop a really great product, reports the TV broadcaster CNBC.
His urgent advice to all company bosses: "Take a step back and ask yourself: 'Is our product as fantastic as it could be?" But this is exactly what many CEOs fail because they focus too much on the end result instead of the Focus on the way there, says Musk.
In order to devote himself fully to the product, the Tesla boss recommends
spending
less time on meetings, PowerPoint presentations and finances
.
Instead, his CEO colleagues should spend much more time in the factory and devote more time to customers.
The end consumers in particular should be happy about the result.
(as) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen central editorial network.
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