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What methods of work does Elon Musk use?

Elon Musk is known all over the world for his successful innovations. His ideas and company management have generated billions. What is the famous engineer and businessman guided by? He told about five steps to speed up the creation of new products at Tesla and SpaceX in an interview with the YouTube channel Everyday Astronaut.

Question the correctness of the requirements
Everyone makes mistakes, no matter how smart they are. Almost all the ideas at the stage of issuing the assignment are wrong, so it is worth supplementing and changing them.
Whatever the task, the head of Tesla advises giving it to one specific performer, not an entire department. And the one who gave the task is obliged to take responsibility for it.

Get rid of excess
“In fact, if it doesn't take 10% of the time to get things back to normal, you're not removing enough unnecessary parts and processes,” Musk said. The bottom line is that people tend to add a lot of details to projects that they think can hedge or help. However, this makes projects overwhelming.

Simplify
A common mistake of engineers, according to the entrepreneur, is that they start to improve and optimize things that should not exist at all. "Why does it happen? It's just that everyone was taught at school and university: if you have a question, you need an answer. You cannot tell the teacher that his question is idiotic, you need to answer. So everyone has a kind of mental straitjacket”, Musk added.

Speed ​​up the cycle
The next step is to accelerate. But this can only be done after making sure to go through the previous steps. “If you’re digging your own grave, you don’t have to dig it faster, just stop doing it,” Musk said of entrepreneurs who are ahead of the curve.

Move on to automation
This is the last step. Musk himself says that he made a mistake more than once, moving in the opposite direction. That is, he started with automation, then went on to speed up the cycle, and so on. Then he had to start all over again. “In creating the Tesla Model 3, I literally automated, accelerated, simplified and then removed,” Musk explained.