Elon Musk and his philosophies
For example his employee "Anti-Handbook" for Tesla that has a 'Stupid Stuff' section and a 'Fun Stuff' section and statements like;
"Why? Because we're Tesla. We're changing the world. We're willing to rethink everything," "We're different and we like it that way. Being different allows us to do what no one else is doing; to do what others tell us is impossible."
"You can talk to anyone without anyone else's permission," the document says. "Moreover, you should consider yourself obligated to do so until the right thing happens."
"Your #1 job — everyone's #1 job — is making this company a success," "If you see opportunities to improve the way we do things, speak up even if these are outside your area of responsibility. You have a personal stake in Tesla's success so make suggestions and share your ideas. Your good ideas mean nothing if you keep them to yourself."
"We can’t afford to waste time dealing with stupid stuff when we have so many important things to get done,"
"make sure you’re having fun at work because, if you aren’t having fun at some level, you’ll be unhappy. We don’t want that."
And then there are his 6 productivity rules:
"1. Nix big meetings
Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time. Please get [out] of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to the whole audience, in which case keep them very short.”
"2. Ditch frequent meetings too,
also get rid of frequent meetings, unless you are dealing with an extremely urgent matter. Meeting frequency should drop rapidly once the urgent matter is resolved.”
"3. Leave a meeting if you’re not contributing, walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value. It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.”
4. Drop jargon
“Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software or processes at Tesla. In general, anything that requires an explanation inhibits communication. We don’t want people to have to memorize a glossary just to function at Tesla.”
5. Communicate directly, irrespective of hierarchy communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the ‘chain of command’. Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.
A major source of issues is poor communication between depts. The way to solve this is allow free flow of information between all levels. If, in order to get something done between depts, an individual contributor has to talk to their manager, who talks to a director, who talks to a VP, who talks to another VP, who talks to a director, who talks to a manager, who talks to someone doing the actual work, then super dumb things will happen. It must be ok for people to talk directly and just make the right thing happen.”
"6. Follow logic, not rules; In general, always pick common sense as your guide. If following a ‘company rule’ is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, such that it would make for a great Dilbert cartoon, then the rule should change.”