Elon Musk’s Six Productivity Rules from a Letter He Sent to Tesla Employees

Follow logic, not rules

Brian Keyes
ILLUMINATION

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Did you ever wonder how Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk manages to produce such groundbreaking results? Even though his companies are currently facing some challenges, the results they’ve achieved are nothing short of amazing. He has a simple productivity system that he uses to make sure that he stays on top of his game, and he recently shared it with his workforce via a letter that he sent to employees. You can check it out below.

Cancel big meetings

This one is great. Musk takes meetings where he doesn’t feel like he’s adding value, and he cancels them. He said in his letter that meetings are only worth it if the outcome is worth at least as much as the time spent in it. If you’re wasting time on meetings that aren’t benefiting you or your company, cancel them and don’t let anyone else know!

Ditch frequent meetings too

If you have a meeting scheduled every week, you might as well save some time and skip it. Nothing is more time-wasting than a meeting that has to happen, but nobody has to do anything about it. That includes meetings that you’re required to attend, but that you don’t want to. There’s nothing productive about spending five minutes…

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Brian Keyes
ILLUMINATION

Living, learning, improving. I write about life and productivity in uncomplicated words. https://linktr.ee/productivitybee