I get so annoyed reading what people write here with no sense of actual thinking and wish to point a few things out over the last pages of discussion. Yes Elon is very talkative, yes he makes mistakes, yes he has not handled the transition politically correct and surely have also caused other issues at the same time.
However, these points below are in my honest opinion something that most any decent human, capable of having a normal conversation and discussion as it should always be should agree with. Without cancel culture influences or claiming that if one calls a Diver who insulted oneself a pedofile it cancels out all prior and future good deeds.
1. Free speech does not mean that people can impersonate others and pretend to act as another person to deceive or cause harm. That is not what free speech is about whatsoever. If anything, the key to free speech is transparency and faking comments is the opposite of transparency.
2. Free speech does not mean that one publicly can criticize ones own company and it never has, this is a given at any normal company these days as well as prior days. One does not go around in a town square saying the products one's company sells are *sugar* and expect to be praised for it.
3. The same thing applies to internal gossip and slandering of ones current company and leadership in corridors, in slack or other meeting areas, this does not constitute a normal acceptable working environment in most normal places. If one expects this to be acceptable throughout, especially at a transition time then one is a fool and people believing that is fine are also fools or are fooled by other fools. If you however make the same comments at home, with friends and family it is a different matter.
4. The last point, most successful transitions or change management at companies, from a poor performing company in decline comes from a sense of crisis and an urgency to get the needed change done ASAP. This has to be communicated and clearly understood and followed by the employees of a company. Not doing this will lead to a sub-par change and possible failure of the change. As the culture needs changing to achieve the goal set, you need to take drastic action to make it happen unless you want it to remain as prior or drag out the pain even further.
Those are the points I wish to make, make of it what you wish...
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