I think there is a middle area between being a "nice boss" and being a boss who calls out internal engineering implementation concerns (rightly or not) on Twitter. And then fire people who disagree in a response.
The labourers would have been enticed by the mix of high-quality food and the opportunity to work on such a prestigious project."
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyram...
I am asking - show me the person who found the better way.
They weren't build by aliens with alien technology? ;-)
SCNR because we are talking about Elon Musk with his space obsession.
Early support for company health insurance, flextime, work-from-home, free coffee breaks, decentralized decision making, etc.
See the HP Memory Project at https://www.hpmemoryproject.org for some of the stories. ("Jim Catlin's Packard Story" and Packard's 11 rules, "Bill Hewlett and the HP Medical Plan" for their anonymous payment for medical bills for an employee's premature baby, etc.)
The padlock story at https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/timeline/john_minck/inside_h... is also pretty well-known, and used as an example of promoting institutional trust.
Packard's support for apartheid profits keeps him definitely on the scale.
[1] Probably better if you were a white male not as subject to the "mixture of machismo and misogyny" of early HP - https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/timeline/barbara_waugh/barba... .