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Status: #idea
Tags: #business #elon
# Corollaries to Elon Musk's approach to business
1. **All technical managers must have hands-on experience. For example, managers of software teams must spend 20% of their time coding.** Otherwise, they are like a cavalry leader who can't ride a horse or a general who can't use a sword. You cannot effectively question requirements, delete parts or processes, or simplify and optimize if you do not understand the systems in question at a very deep level.
2. **Never ask your troops to do something you're not willing to do.**
3. **A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle.**
4. **The only rules are the ones dictated by the laws of physics. Everything else is a recommendation.** By questioning everything not limited by the laws of physics, you can find simplified paths forward that others would never think of because they're trapped in their standard ways of thinking and the current cultural milieu.
[[Elon Musk's approach to business]]
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# References
[[Elon Musk]]