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February 17, 2021 by Eric Butts

What Elon Musk should’ve learned from how Thanos approached handling his business

I saw this quote from Elon Musk the other day where he said CEOs need to spend less time on finance and less time looking at PowerPoint slides.

All that sounds good for the people who are willing to work 80 hours on their company so they don’t have to work 40 hours on someone else’s and all that… but there’s one thing The Great Flamethrower failed to mention…

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Filed Under: Management Consulting Tagged With: elon musk, finance, start-up, thanos

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