Leadership: Elon Musk and his life

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Leadership

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Elon Musk and his life
Elon musk is the technology investor and entrepreneur who is born in 1971 in South Africa. He
is the founder of SpaceX and is also the co-founder of the Tesla company. He was always a
dreamer for the innovations and developed the interest in the computer at the age of 10. He was
innovated and created as software of his own at the age of 12 which is identified as the Blastar.
He had gone to the Queen’s University at the age of 17 in 1989. The Canadian citizenship has
been gained by him in the same year and by that he obtained the American citizenship (Kessler,
2015). He further went to the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 where he studied physics and
business.
After this, he went to pursue Ph.D. at Stanford University in California. In 1995 he launched his
first company which is Zip2 Corporation. In May 2012 there was a history created by the
SpaceX and Musk as they launched their Falcon 9 rocket in the space. There are various
successful projects which have been carried by him and they made the company even more
successful (Setili, 2015). He has carried various innovations which have made him famous in this
field and gained the trust of everyone.
Leadership style
As a leader also Elon musk has gained the success and is operating various companies. He is
leading all of them at the same time and this shows that he is a great leader. In the leadership
process, there are various elements which need to be focused and out of all of them there is the
need for the motivation at the upmost level (Cunha et al., 2017). There are various features
which are required to be possessed by a leader and in the most important are personality
development, emotional intelligence, and group behavior. He is of the view that all of them have
the same potential and they will be working in the same manner as he is working. He follows the
ethical leadership and in that he considers the interest of all in undertaking of any decision. He
has emphasized on the renewable energy which is a good thought as it will be saving the future
in effective manner (Groysberg et al., 2018). In all of his companies there is an ethical
framework which is established and they are required to work in accordance with the same. All
of the rules and procedures which are required to be followed are specified in the same and that

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gives them with the best of the rest and that too without harming anyone.
He believes in the teamwork and for that has the ability to manage the teams in an effective
manner. In his company there are various teams which are made and they are managed by him in
appropriate manner (Rubens, Leah, and Schoenfeld, 2016). The products which are included in
the company are highly complex and so they require the team to work in the combined manner
by which the best of the results will be attained. He was a hard worker from the childhood and
that represented in his leadership also. He carries all of the operations with the perfection and
does not consider the avoidance of any aspect in his projects. Being a leader he always inspires
his employees to work in the positive direction. In order to get the work done by them he himself
does it first so that he can set the example for all and this way all will be following their leader.
In all the businesses there is a certain mission which is involved and in same manner there were
mission statements which were made by him for all of his employees. With the help of that the
direction and focus are provided to the employees (Marques, 2017). He always used to follow
the transformational leadership and in that inspiration was provided to all to perform in best
manner and attain the goals which have been set by the company. He was always happy to share
his vision with his employees and by that the recruitment of the most talented people was made
in the company. There was creativity in the work of musk and due to that most of the people
wanted to work for him.
Being a leader he has worked in the most successful manner and this was by including all of the
employees in the processes which are carried. He used to share his thoughts with all and by that
there was increased motivation among all as they were well aware of the goals which are to be
achieved and also as they are the part of the process so they consider the same to be their
responsibility also. This gives Musk the additional advantage as all of the employees are keen on
working with him as he includes the innovative ideas in businesses which are liked by all. There
is the inspiration which is involved by seeing their leader working that hard (Neider and
Schriesheim, 2014). They are willing to follow the path of their leader and this provides the
musk with the required results and success. The leader should be such that is able to take the
complete team together will be able to provide all with the same level of the growth. Elon has
done the same and he treated all of the employees with equality and there was no difference