En solo 8 palabras rápidas, Elon Musk tuiteó una verdad brutal que la mayoría de la gente no entiende

Esta es una historia sobre lo que Elon Musk realmente quiere hacer con su vida, y quizás también lo que tú quieres hacer. Es el tipo de conocimiento que inspiró mi libro electrónico gratuito Elon Musk tiene grandes planes, lo que puedas Descarga aquí.

Comienza con uno de los tweets de Musk, en realidad un tweet de respuesta, que señaló una distinción importante que muchas personas ambiciosas pasan por alto. De hecho, los aspirantes a empresarios suelen ser los últimos en darse cuenta de esto.

Todo se produjo en respuesta a un nuevo libro que afirmaba que Musk quería vender Telsa a Apple hace unos años, pero solo con la condición de que se convirtiera en el nuevo CEO de Apple.

Musk negó el informe, al igual que el director ejecutivo de Apple, Tim Cook. Pero alguien en Twitter consideró que habría sido una buena opción para dirigir la empresa. Musk expresó esta idea en solo ocho palabras:

“No quiero ser el director ejecutivo de nada”.

Dado que Musk es actualmente el CEO de dos empresas sofisticadas y está muy involucrado en varias otras, esto parece una explicación extraña, como si Kevin Durant hubiera declarado que no quería ser un jugador de baloncesto o Donald Trump repentinamente anunciara que lo tenía. ningún deseo de ser presidente.

Aún así, refleja un sentimiento que muchas personas exitosas me han expresado en más de una década de entrevistas con líderes empresariales y emprendedores, incluso si muchos de ellos no lo articulan de manera tan sucinta o tal vez ni siquiera lo entienden tan profundamente.

Permítanme resumir lo que me dijeron:

  • El emprendimiento es una vocación. Construir cosas puede afirmar la vida.
  • ¿Pero ser realmente un director ejecutivo y dirigir una empresa? Es un trabajo.

Solo piensa en ello la definición del diccionario el puesto de CEO:

“un director ejecutivo, la persona de mayor jerarquía en una empresa u otra institución que es, en última instancia, responsable de las decisiones de gestión”.

Dentro de una sola oración comienza tan fuerte y prometedor (“la persona de mayor rango!“), pero se está moviendo rápidamente hacia algo que muchos innovadores encuentran menos atractivo (“responsable de las decisiones de gestión“).

Es una verdad brutal. Los forasteros mezclan los dos roles, pero ser un innovador o un emprendedor es una vocación muy diferente a ser un CEO. Sin embargo, las personas que aspiran a un papel pueden verse obligadas a trabajar para asumir el otro.

Quizás parte de la confusión proviene del hecho de que usamos múltiples títulos para describir tantos íconos del espíritu empresarial:

  • Por ejemplo, Jeff Bezos es el fundador y ex director ejecutivo de Amazon.
  • Bill Gates fue cofundador y director ejecutivo de MicrosoHeaven32.
  • Musk es el fundador y CEO de SpaceX y uno de los cinco fundadores y CEO de Tesla.

Pero es la diferencia entre soñar, diseñar, construir e iterar, a diferencia de todas las cosas prácticas que el jefe de una organización empresarial debe supervisar (o contratar y delegar): Marketing, contratación, finanzas, logística, relaciones con las partes interesadas, cumplimiento legal: la lista sigue y sigue.

Si miras esta lista, la ironía es que Musk realmente sobresale en la mayoría de estas cosas. Incluso parece estar disfrutando de algunos de ellos.

¿Qué mejor comercializador del planeta? Tesla es la compañía automotriz más valiosa del mundo y no gasta ni un centavo en publicidad. Descubrir.

Por cierto, ¿quién? es mejor en recursos humanos y reclutamiento entre directores ejecutivos?

¿Finanzas? ¿Logística? Relaciones con las partes interesadas?

¿Cómplice legal? (En realidad, este podría no ser su favorito).

Pero tampoco hay nadie que pueda comprender mejor la divergencia de estos roles.

De hecho, reportero James Clayton del La BBC descubrió una cita larga y reveladora, que Musk aparentemente hizo en una declaración bajo juramento, sobre cómo se siente como CEO de Tesla:

“Prefiero odiarlo y prefiero dedicar mi tiempo al diseño y la ingeniería. … “Tengo que [keep the job] o, francamente, Tesla va a morir “.

Obviamente hay una motivación de mercurio. Musk supuestamente lo hizo $ 6.7 mil millones en 2020 solo por su trabajo como CEO de Tesla.

Eso es casi 12 veces más que el segundo CEO mejor pagado de una empresa estadounidense que cotiza en bolsa. Pero al mismo tiempo, este número gigantesco refuerza el hecho de que Musk no tiene que hacer nada que no quiera.

Quizás fue un momento fugaz cuando Musk tuiteó que no quería ser el CEO de nada.

Pudo haberse sentido así un viernes, pero el lunes siguiente estaba encantado de volver a estar a cargo.

Quizás sea como muchos de nosotros en el sentido de que habló con el poeta del siglo XIX Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Pero no cambia la brutal verdad. Querer dar forma al futuro es una cosa. Es completamente diferente asumir el papel y ser responsable del interminable desfile de pequeñas decisiones que se necesitan para llegar allí.

(No olvide el libro electrónico gratuito, Elon Musk tiene grandes planes.)

Las opiniones expresadas aquí por los columnistas de Heaven32 son propias, no de Heaven32.

, which you can download here. n It starts with one of Musk's tweets -- a reply tweet, actually -- which hinted at an important distinction that many ambitious people gloss over. In fact, aspiring entrepreneurs are oHeaven32en the last to realize it.  n The whole thing came in response to a new book that claims that Musk wanted to sell Telsa to Apple a few years back, but only on the condition that he become the new CEO of Apple. n Musk denied the report, as did Apple CEO Tim Cook. But someone on Twitter mused that he would have been a good choice to run the company. Musk shot down that idea with just eight words: n
"I don't want to be CEO of anything."
n n Given that Musk is currently CEO of two demanding companies and heavily involved in several others, this seems like a bizarre declaration -- as if Kevin Durant declared he didn't want to be a basketball player, or Donald Trump suddenly announced he had no desire to be president.  n Yet, it reflects a sentiment that many successful people have expressed to me over more than a decade of interviewing business leaders and entrepreneurs, even if many of them don't articulate it so succinctly, or perhaps even understand it so deeply. n Let me synthesize what they've told me:   n
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  • Entrepreneurship is a callingBuilding things can be life-affirming.
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  • But, actually being a CEO and running a company? That's a job.
n Just think about  the dictionary definition of the CEO position:  n
"a chief executive officer, the highest-ranking person in a company or other institution, ultimately responsible for making managerial decisions."
n In the space of a single sentence, it starts out so strong and promising ("the highest-ranking person!"), but it moves quickly toward something that many innovators find less appealing ("responsible for making managerial decisions"). n It's a brutal truth. People on the outside conflate the two roles, but being an innovator or an entrepreneur is an entirely different calling from being a CEO. Yet, people who aspire to one role can find themselves boxed into working to assume the other. n Maybe the confusion stems in part from the fact we describe so many icons of entrepreneurship with multiple titles: n
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  • Jeff Bezos is both the founder and former CEO of Amazon, for example.
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  • Bill Gates was both the cofounder and CEO of MicrosoHeaven32.
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  • Musk is the both founder and CEO of SpaceX, and one of the five founders and CEO of Tesla.
n But, it's the difference between dreaming, designing, building, and iterating -- versus all of the practical things that the leader of a business organization has to oversee (or hire for, and delegate): marketing, recruiting, finance, logistics, stakeholder relations, regulatory compliance--the list goes on. n Now, if you look at that list, the irony is that Musk actually excels at most of these things. He even seems to enjoy a few of them. n Is there a better marketer on the planet? Tesla is the world's most valuable car company, and doesn't spend a penny on ads. Figure that one out. n For that matter, who among CEOs is better at human resources and recruiting?  n Finance? Logistics? Stakeholder relations? n Regulatory compliance? (Actually, maybe that one isn't his favorite.) n But, there's also nobody in a better position to understand the divergence of these roles.  n In fact, reporter James Clayton of the BBC dug up a telling, longer quote -- that Musk apparently gave under oath in a deposition -- about how he feels about being CEO of Tesla: n
"I rather hate it and I would much prefer to spend my time on design and engineering. ... "I have to [keep the job] or, frankly, Tesla is going to die."
n Obviously, there's a mercurial motivation. Musk reportedly made $6.7 billion during 2020 for his work as CEO of Tesla alone. n That's almost 12 times as much as the second-highest paid CEO of a publicly traded U.S. company. But at the same time, that gargantuan figure reinforces the fact that Musk doesn't have to do anything at all that he doesn't want to. n Perhaps it was a fleeting moment when Musk tweeted about not wanting to be CEO of anything. n Maybe that's how he felt on a Friday, but by the following Monday he was thrilled once more to be in charge. n Maybe he's like many of us, in that he agrees with the 19th century poet Ralph Waldo Emerson that consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.  n But it doesn't change the brutal truth. It's one thing to want to design the future. It's another thing entirely to assume the role, and to be responsible for the endless parade of small decisions that are required to get there.  n (Don't forget the free ebook, Elon Musk Has Very Big Plans.) 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