I beg to differ. Especially if you care about outcomes.

I find that is not the case. At least if one cares about the outcome. Ever fight feeling that it would be faster to just do it one’s self?

There’s lots of skill involved in finding effective people, developing trust, communicating goals clearly, evaluating outcomes, adjusting.

On the contrary - not telling other people to do things doesn't take that much time. Especially with SpaceX, if you have a team in place you trust, you don't have to even think about telling them what to do. They present a plan you can accept or push back on.

It doesn't take much time to be the front-man to several organizations. And Musk excels at it. Being the public face of an excelling team that you assembled is a rare skillset (at the level Musk operates).

Creating the institution and framework to even put the people together in a room is the hard part.

I totally disagree. Context switching a million times a day is _hard_. I'm sure Elon isn't running every little thing day to day in his companies, but it's absolutely impressive what he's able to get done.

I don't like the guy, I don't like tsla, etc. But you have to appreciate what he's been able to do. He's clearly not a dumb guy.