Silicon Valley’s Horrible Bosses⁠↗

The Musk School is as much about cultivating the individual executive’s brand as it is about running an actual company. Its practitioners see themselves as visionaries, and they can often point to the early success of their companies as evidence. But they also believe that the skills they perceive as having in one area are applicable elsewhere—in particular, the messy art of managing people.

Anyone who takes this issue seriously will tell you that hard-line positions on The Best Way to Work are facile and usually driven by fear of losing control, fear of change, and lack of imagination. People who take the future-of-work question seriously see that there’s a huge opportunity to rethink the vestigial parts of our jobs and create a healthier professional environment.