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Elon thinking like Shackleton

Spotted on Xwitter a few days ago...


Elon Musk: "The biggest mistake I made is to put too much of a weighting on somebody's talent and not much on their personality, it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart."


"Shackleton judged his men's performance on two levels: doing the job well and proving loyalty. Loyalty was by far the more important." Shackleton's Way

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