This personality trait helped Musk, Gates and Jobs succeed, says biographer: 'It's something a lot of these people have' (via CNBCMakeIt)
, Gates said both he and longtime friend Jobs were known for their intense competitive fire that translated into extremely high expectations for their employees and themselves.
For Musk, who runs both Tesla and SpaceX, being brusque and to the point with his employees might also be a natural byproduct of being crunched for time, due to his multiple leadership roles.
Isaacson later clarified that Musk definitely "cares about his reputation" — but that doesn't change his tendency to be blunt, or even harsh, with employees when it comes to executing a vision for his companies. "If he's sitting in front of four or five people who have messed up getting the booster of Starship right, he says, 'If I'm starting to feel empathy [for them] instead of moving them out, then that's a misplaced empathy. My empathy has to be with the enterprise of getting to Mars, not with the person in front of me,'" Isaacson said.
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