Opinion | America Is Learning the Wrong Lesson from Elon Musk’s Success
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Opinion | America Is Learning the Wrong Lesson from Elon Musk’s Success
The stifling regime of disclosure and punishment for authentic intellectual risk-taking that we impose on would-be leaders leaves little room for capable and original thinkers whose principal motivation is something other than self-promotion, and who often lack a willingness to subject themselves to the theater and vicissitudes of the modern public
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From Errol, Isaacson intimates, Musk inherited his explosive temper and fondness for dismissing anything that displeases him as stupid. He also learned to crave crisis, to the point that decades later, as CEO of six companies, he would develop a practice of arbitrarily picking one of those companies to send into panic mode. A rule he makes his... See more