Elon Musk Addresses Tesla’s Problems – “Production Hell.”

In this video Elon Musk Addresses Tesla’s Problems. Hard to bet against Elon Musk even with the current Tesla problems. “I really believe that one should lead from the front lines and that’s why I’m here.” ~Elon Musk

Elon Musk has addressed the challenges that Tesla has faced in ramping up production of its electric vehicles (EVs), which he referred to as “production hell.” These challenges have included difficulties in producing enough batteries to meet demand, as well as issues with the automation of certain manufacturing processes.

To address these problems, Tesla has made a number of changes to its manufacturing processes, including increasing the number of human workers in its factories and slowing the pace of automation. The company has also made significant investments in battery production, including building a gigafactory in Nevada to increase its capacity to produce batteries.

In addition to these efforts, Musk has also acknowledged that Tesla has faced challenges in terms of quality control and has made efforts to improve its processes in this area. Despite these challenges, Tesla has continued to see strong demand for its EVs and has achieved record sales and production levels in recent years.

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“Also get rid of frequent meetings, unless you are dealing with an extremely urgent matter. Meeting frequency should drop rapidly once the urgent matter is resolved.”

“Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value. It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.”

“Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the ‘chain of command’. Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.”

“A major source of issues is poor communication between depts. The way to solve this is allow free flow of information between all levels. If, in order to get something done between depts, an individual contributor has to talk to their manager, who talks to a director, who talks to a VP, who talks to another VP, who talks to a director, who talks to a manager, who talks to someone doing the actual work, then super dumb things will happen. It must be ok for people to talk directly and just make the right thing happen.”

“In general, always pick common sense as your guide. If following a ‘company rule’ is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, such that it would make for a great Dilbert cartoon, then the rule should change.”