Analyzing Leadership: Elon Musk's Attributes, Capabilities, Success

This report provides an analysis of Elon Musk's personal leadership attributes and capabilities, highlighting his transformational leadership style, entrepreneurial spirit, and innovative thinking. It discusses his inspiring and innovative qualities, illustrated by his achievements with Tesla and SpaceX. The analysis covers his leadership achievements, such as solving the problem of car pollution with Tesla and his vision to lead human life on Mars, emphasizing his ability to spot problems and find creative solutions. The report also examines the elements that make Musk a successful leader, including courage, ambition, passion, inspirational qualities, intellectual capacity, and being a good listener. It connects these attributes with relevant leadership theories and concepts, concluding that Elon Musk's adoption of effective leadership theories has contributed significantly to the success of his organizations.

Personal Leaders Attributes and Capabilities Analyse an
admired leader ELON MUSK CEO of tesla

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Leadership attributes and capabilities:.........................................................................................3
Leadership achievement of Elon Musk:......................................................................................3
Analysing the elements that makes leader successful .................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Leaders mainly lead, develop and achieve their dreams, they are decisiveness who make
quick and effective decision with their personal capabilities (Goleman, 2017). Leaders have
ability to face any challenges and find creative and innovative solution for such issues. This
report will discuss the personal attributes and capabilities of Elon Musk.
MAIN BODY
Leadership attributes and capabilities:
Introduction of Elon Musk: Elon Musk have transformational leadership style which make him
different from others. He have the entrepreneurial spirit which allow him to be more creative and
innovative in his company. Elon Musk carry personal attributes in the betterment and
development of his company, he is one of the most successful leaders in the world with
constantly developing company such as Tesla and Space X (Khan, 2021). Elon Musk is the most
innovative leader which have the capabilities to challenges the problem that arise in front of him.
The introduction of Elon Musk may include:
Inspiring: Elon Musk is among those leaders who are inspiring, when people interviewed the
employees of tesla, they found out that Elon Musk inspiring their employee to be more creativity
and allow them to share their ideas. He carries the ability to make his employee excited and push
them to be more effective.
Innovative: Elon Musk is from among those people to never stop their critical thinking and
always go for innovative things. The most successful innovation of Elon Musk is Tesla, Tesla
change the concept of cars. This innovative product of Elon Musk is completely made with
innovative thinking of the leader.
Leadership achievement of Elon Musk:
Leading: leadership achievement of Elon Musk keeps the motivation and spirit high which make
him to be creative. He is not only a great leader but the also have to ability to teach others.
Leaders never leave their employees behind, they always encourage their employee to be more
effective. Elon Musk is a type of leader who know how to make their employee more productive.
He is not only the owner of Tesla but Elon Musk is leader also who never leave his company in
any kind of problem.

Spotting problem: Elon Musk solved one of the biggest problem of the world which was
pollution from cars, he developed the Tesla which run completely on electricity (Yauney, 2018).
This leadership achievement of Elon Musk not only made him the richest man in the world, but
he is the most successful leader. Leaders achievement of Elon Musk made him capable to spot
the problem and find the most creative solution.
Hold the vision: Elon Musk hold the vision to change the world. The leadership achievement of
Elon Musk make him more capable to explore the outer world and space. He is not only planning
to make electric cars but now he is planning to lead human life on Mars as well, the successful
achievement of Space X make him the most transformational leader who are ready to challenge
every level of risk. He holds the vision to fail which allow him to be fearless.
Analysing the elements that makes leader successful
Leadership is the broad concept as it involves large influencing large number of people. In order
to become a successful leader, the leader must have these qualities:
Courage- The leader must full of courage. The boss who have extreme level of courage
motivates their employees in positive manner. (Cote, 2017). It has been found from various
studies that Elon Musk is that leader who is full of extreme level of courage. As a result, he is
motivating his employees to perform in more productive manner.
Ambitious- The leader should be ambitious. An ambitious leader enables its subordinates to set
up the aims. And along with this, guide them to achieve that particular aim. Elon Musk is the
main reason behind the success of TESLA MOTORS. He has been ambitious throughout the
starting of the company and till now the aim are getting higher.
Passion- The leader who treats his work as his passion has been proven highly effective in terms
of performing the leadership concept. A person who is completely dedicated towards its work
helps their workers in contributing more. CEO of TESLA is full of passion. Every task that has
been performed by him shows their passion level. (Leithwood, 2019). Along with this, he boosts
up their employees in order to become m ore passionate.
Inspirational- Not only for their employees, Elon Musk has setted the standard for influencing
the large number of people from all over the world. He has been a transformational leader. It
contains the feature of influencing the employees. But here, the leader is influencing the large
number of people from different part of the world. This shows that the leader is highly efficient
in terms of motivating everyone.

Intellectual- This refers to take actions by observing every single thing in the organization. A
leader must be good observer. Level of observation leads to level of implementation. For
example: Elon Musk has adopted that theory of leadership under which he observes his
employees and customers as well. (Yauney, 2018). Therefore, he has a capability of
understanding the mentality of their customers and employees.
Good listener- The leader should not only have the quality of good speaker, along with this the
leader must have the capability of listening. The followers want that, there leader listens them in
order to understand them. This element adds glory in the leadership of the leader. The chosen
leader has effective capability of listening to its employees. The leadership theory that has been
adopted by them contains a feature named good listening power. And he is performing this
feature with their complete efficiency. He also takes opinion from their employees and consider
them while making new decisions.
CONCLUSION
The above report concluded that Elon Musk has adopted the effective leadership theory.
This helping their organization in order to achieve the high objectives. He has all those qualities
that an efficient leader possess. Therefore, TESLA MOTORS is one of the biggest brand in the
world.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Cote, R., 2017. Vision of effective leadership. International Journal of Business
Administration. 8(6). pp.1-10.
Goleman, D., 2017. Leadership that gets results (Harvard business review classics). Harvard
Business Press.
Khan, M., 2021. A critical analysis of Elon Musk’s leadership in Tesla motors. Journal of
Global Entrepreneurship Research, pp.1-10.
Leithwood, K., 2019. Characteristics of effective leadership networks: A replication and
extension. School Leadership & Management. 39(2). pp.175-197.
Yauney, R.H., 2018. Leadership Development: A Study of Elon Musk. Marriott Student
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