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What’s the impact of Elon Musk’s leadership on end-user experience?

Analyzing tech leadership approaches and alternatives.

Meltem (UX Career Coach)
UX Collective
12 min readFeb 12, 2024
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A picture from one of Musk's companies, Tesla (Image taken from Prometheus 🔥 on Unsplash)

Musk’s leadership style doesn’t only impact the handful of renowned companies he owns. It also shapes what success looks like for visionary, risk-taking, hands-on leaders around the world who might expect too much from their staff and set no boundaries.

In this article, I go a step beyond exploring how this type of tech leadership impacts employees and delve further into the question: What kind of work culture, driven by what kind of tech leadership, does it take to build successful products that deliver extraordinary UX?

Elon Musk, widely discussed and polarizing, serves as a focal point for understanding transformational leadership. His methods, though divisive, cannot be overlooked, given his cultural influence.

Since acquiring X, Musk’s leadership has been scrutinized for its demanding nature, leading to concerns regarding psychological safety, burnout, and organizational chaos. Arianna Huffington’s critique offers more clarity on this:

“So how does this scienceand data-driven genius (Musk) adopt such an incredibly backward idea of how human energy works? It’s the equivalent of Musk announcing that the next Tesla model will be running…

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Written by Meltem (UX Career Coach)

Hi, I’m Mel. As a UX Career Coach, I help my clients drive meaningful actions based on self-awareness so that they can be happy at work. Say hi on LinkedIn!

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