"Anyone who works for Musk can volunteer to take on a task, said Maguire, who The Information has dubbed the "Musk Whisperer." Continuously raising your hand and delivering will help you move up. "Being extremely competent and being willing to bet on your own competence, and always delivering," Maguire said on the podcast. "And knowing your limit." It's OK, he said, to admit when you can't do something, or when someone else might be better for the task."
""The next thing is very, very quickly learning that you need to go five levels deep," Maguire said. "You need to be able to handle five levels of questions or so in anything." Lastly, Maguire said that loyalty is crucial - but that doesn't mean "blind loyalty." Instead, he said it's about trusting the system and that Musk "sees things other people don't see.""
Three key traits help people excel at Elon Musk's companies. First, high competence combined with a willingness to bet on one’s own abilities, consistently delivering results while knowing and admitting limits. Second, capacity to learn and operate five levels deep, handling layered questions across complex problems. Third, loyalty to the mission and system rather than blind loyalty, trusting leadership vision that sees opportunities others miss. An inner collective of roughly twenty long-term team members holds deep mutual trust and anticipatory understanding of leadership preferences. Beyond that inner circle, capital and hires are evaluated for complementary traits aligned with execution intensity.
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