How Elon Musk
Runs His Famously Efficient Meetings
Don't be in a meeting unless there's a purpose
for it.
In a nutshell, only hold a meeting when
necessary.
When I was there in 2015, SpaceX meetings
were rare, but I would say they were most common in my group. I worked in
Dragon Development, which is primarily project/systems engineering for the
variety of Dragon products. We needed to coordinate many different groups to
synchronize the assembly and hit deadlines. So getting the team leads together
made sense.
One of my close friends started there a
couple of years before me. He worked (and still does) in an analysis group, so
meetings made less sense when you could just walk over and ask someone a
question. He told me a story one time (this is paraphrased):
Elon
to a meeting member: "You haven't said anything. Why are you in
here?"
That may be borderline rude, but it makes
sense. Don't be in a meeting unless there's a purpose for it; either to make a
decision or get people up to speed. In most cases, an email will suffice.
Meetings are expensive. Assuming the
fully-encumbered cost of an engineer can be between $80 to $100 per hour.
Having a 10 person meeting can cost a company around $1,000 an hour!
For $1,000 per hour, that meeting should damn
well be worth it.
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