Perfect Leader! Passion Wins

Mixed double management in men-woman-teams, learn rhetoric communication & employee motivation, promote skills motivation & inspiration with charisma

Simone Janson, Simone Janson, Simone Janson

• Publisher: Best of HR – Berufebilder.de®
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9783965963719
• Edition: 4
• Topic: Crescita personale
• Subtopic: Carriera

Leading through inspiration and motivation like Elon Musk: Tesla as the No. 1 industry topic
// By Ashlee Vance

Elon Musk It was understandable that Musk would at some point want to get some of the shine that Tesla was now given. The roadster had become the number one topic in the industry.

Religious Reactions

Electric cars have already provoked almost religious overreactions among supporters and opponents, and the appearance of a good-looking, fast model has further fueled the passion on both sides.

At the same time, Tesla had made the Silicon Valley, at least by idea, a real threat to Detroit. A month after the show in Santa Monica, the PebbleBeach Concours d'Elegance took place, a famous show for exotic cars.

The Tesla hype

Tesla was so much in the conversation that the organizers begged to get a roadster for their event, and waived any exhibition fees. Tesla set up a booth and scores of visitors came to immediately issue checks for 100.000 dollars to pre-order the car.

"That was long before services like Kickstarter and we just hadn't gotten the idea to try," says Tarpenning. "But soon we were making millions of dollars at such events." Venture capitalists, celebrities, and friends of Tesla employees tried to buy themselves on the waiting list.

The queues of the Silicon Valley elite

Some members of the wealthy Silicon Valley elite even came to Tesla's offices and knocked on the door to get a roadster. Entrepreneurs Konstantin Othmer and Bruce Leak, who knew Musk from his days as an intern at Rocket Science Games, did just that one day and then got a personal introduction of the car from Musk and Eberhard, which lasted several hours. “In the end we said: 'We'll take one,'” reports Othmer.

“The company wasn't even allowed to sell cars, so we joined their club. That cost $ 100.000, but one of the benefits was that you would get a free car later. " Tesla switched back from marketing to research and development and was supported by some trends.

Crash test on computer

Advances in computer technology have helped small car companies in some areas to compete with big ones. Just a few years ago, a small fleet of real cars would have had to be produced for crash tests. Tesla could not afford that, but it was not necessary anymore. The third roadster prototype went to the same crash test facility used by major automakers, allowing Tesla to use the same high-speed cameras and other imaging technologies as they did.

Thousands of tests, however, were undertaken by a service provider specializing in computer simulations, so that Tesla did not have to build a crash test fleet. On the test tracks for durability, Tesla also used the same equipment as the large cobblestone and asphalt roads with metal objects in which the cars are exposed to heavy loads.

For example, it was quite common for Tesla engineers to demonstrate the silicon-valley attitude on the traditional terrain of car manufacturers. In Northern Sweden near the Polarkreises, there is a braking and traction test track, on which cars are tuned on large ice sheets.

Efficiency from the Silicon Valley

There are usually three days of testing there, then you take your data, drive back to headquarters, and hold meetings for weeks to make changes to the car. Such a process can last a whole winter. Tesla, on the other hand, sent engineers next to his roadster to the tests and had them analyze the data on-site.

If something had to be changed, the engineers rewrote a program code and immediately put the car back on the ice. "For something like this, BMW would need a coordination between three or four companies that would all blame each other," says Tarpenning, "we just did it on our own." Another test called for the roadsters to be placed in a special cooling chamber to see how they react to freezing temperatures. However, Tesla engineers wanted to save the enormous cost of such a chamber and instead rented an ice cream truck with a large refrigerated trailer. Someone drove a roadster in there, the engineers put on thick jackets and worked on the car.

Text comes from: Elon Musk: Wie Elon Musk die Welt verändert – Die Biografie (2015) by Ashlee Vance, published by Münchener Verlagsgruppe (MVG), Reprints by friendly permission of the publisher.

Management competence and self-leadership: Lead yourself, otherwise no one will follow you
// By Jörg Romstötter

No matter which stable we come from, how intelligent we are and how lucky we are. To achieve above-average lasting health, satisfaction and economic success only those who can do one thing can lead themselves.

Begins in childhood and is promoted by nature

The seed for this ability is already laid in childhood. Continuous training and development of the art itself, offers nature in a particularly valuable way.

Dunedin, New Zealand 1975: Over 1.000 three year olds are observed in their behavior and habits; over a period of 38 years. This "Dunedin Study", which is still ongoing, has gone down in the history of behavioral research with its consistently convincing results. It shows that those who have self-discipline, conscientiousness and perseverance help themselves to a higher standard of living. That motivates. But how do we know whether we can manage ourselves reasonably or whether there is still a lot of room for improvement?

The collective conceals our self-governing competence

In particular, where our world is so full of distractions, brakes and passable helpers. In professional life, it is usually impossible to determine the success of the cap. Where dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of hands intertwine, the success of the individual is concealed to the point of verifiability.

We often mean what wonderfully powerful levers we move every day. However, in the case of an unexpected failure, it is clear how thoroughly the hearsh of the thousand hands absorbs our leverage. Most of all, we are effective only because the many others contribute their part and not vice versa.

Unfortunately, we often have the utopia to be uncommon artists of self-control. If we are subject to the belief that we are uncommonly self-reliant, we do not even notice that we have a gigantic success break together.

How do I know how good I can lead myself?

An indication of how far it is about our self-governing competence already shows us an honest look at all our areas of life without exception. It quickly becomes clear where we have our chocolate sides in our self-guidance and where we are as helpless as flotsam.

Have we already climbed well on the career ladder, but the body's level of health, fitness and fitness could not yet benefit from this increased level? Are we the best mate in the world, the quality of our love affair or family ties are permanently underground? Are we all friends of the world, but feel lonely and deserted deep within us?

What is nature doing with us?

If we stick to each other in the collective, we simply can not determine the exact effects of our behavior. If we are alone, there is no doubt how effective our action and our ability to control ourselves is. Nature, together with us, offers us the necessary environment for direct and comprehensible challenges.

1. Do we simply overtake a cold rainstorm or search for panic?
2. Do we admit we have lost ourselves, and go back to a certain point, or do we cling to our path for the sake of prosperity?
3. Do we stay calmly in the surging mosquito cloud, avoiding so many stitches, or do we fiercely wreath around us and break off the hike?
4. Do we linger relaxed under a tree or do we succumb to the overwhelming desire to constantly look at our smartphone?

In a word, we sharpen our view of what is really important to us and see immediately what our action does.

Nature is inimitable reflexive. If we allow it.

Especially when we are alone in nature, our self-reflection is stimulated. Self-reflection occurs when nothing distracts us and we ask ourselves the right questions. In nature, our usual everyday world with its accustomed impressions and distractions is pleasantly in pause mode. But why do we need self-reflection? It's not an area we are all too happy to avoid for nothing. No development without self-reflection. Because only where we recognize where we still have potential can we also set levers in motion that we have not been able to do so far and thus create new successes for ourselves.

We humans have developed a symbiosis with nature, lasting over a million years. The resulting and totally unconscious effects of nature on the body, mind and soul continue to be strong and secure. Nature thus acts soothingly on our mind: we free ourselves more easily from destructive thoughts, thoughts, and our own contempt. There are more positive moods and thoughts. We look hopeful, opportunity-oriented, creative and motivated in the future.

Leadership in the team is difficult: 5 tips for better management
// By Harald Smolak

Everyone talks about leadership, teamwork, and diversity. A lot will be thrown around with it. Why is it so hard in reality? And what can we do better? 5 Reviews.

Leadership in the team: Sociable company

Teams at the top of the company are a world of "unsocial socializing" - in the dilemma between the need for community and the tendency to separate. Immanuel Kant wrote this in the 18th century and that has not changed significantly to date, essentially asking 3 questions:

• Why is it difficult for company leaders to lead an organization together?
• What does it take to use the existing intelligence of a leadership team to make better decisions for the joint success of the company?
• Are new ways of working such as scrum, holocracy, design thinking only trends that work together at eye level only?

5 tips for better col...