Elon Musk’s Memorable Edge: Turn Complexity into Simple, Timeless Rules
The more memorable your management style the more enduring it will be…
And Elons management style is timeless.
He recently tweeted “Time is the ultimate currency” and the truth he tweeted is enduring…
As is his 2025 tweet about energy.
This coming from the man who said (Jan 15th on Twitter) “The thing we call money is just an information system for labor allocation.”
In our increasingly distracted world memorability is key.
So if you can distill your management ethos into rhymes you should do so…
“If it’s long it’s wrong, if it’s tight it’s right.” as Elon would say…
Another effective way of managing is to distill your management strategies into a list…
On a SpaceX tour with Everyday Astronaut (Tim Dodd) Elon shared a five part process for production success:
- Make your requirements less dumb
- Delete the part or process
- Simplify or optimize
- Accelerate cycle time
- Automate
The supreme strategy seems to be: Simplify.
Words are simply suppressed simplifications of reality after all…
So leverage the memorability of your words using lists and rhymes if you are seeking to help yourself and your team make the most of your time.