2 thoughts on “Tesla And Elon”

1. Automobile production is a highly advanced industrial process, and there are top management people available who know it inside and out. The engineering creativity that leads to a producible concept shouldn’t be in charge of execution. They’re two completely different fields, and a person good at one cannot be good at the other. Elon’s setup with Gwynne is absolutely the right model.

   That said, some automobile management people are better than others. My first “real” jobs were working summers at Chrysler car and truck assembly plants, back in the early to mid-1970s. The truck plant at which I worked was, at the time, the only money-making plant in Chrysler Corporation. As I soon learned, the plant manager was the best they had ever had in the company. Working in the car plant, I learned that the production process had been so poorly set up, and as a result the quality was so poor, that those cars wouldn’t sell. That, too, was a management failure. Ultimately, Chrysler was on the brink of bankruptcy when Lee Iaccoca was brought in to lead it. The resulting turn-around was stunning. He had the skill set required to do the job.

   Elon needs to find an Iaccoca, as he has found a Shotwell for SpaceX.

2. The only reason Lutz gets any attention is because he criticizes Musk. Road and Track is using an old man’s vanity to play the clickbait game.

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