No Nonsense Leadership #0089 - Joe Justice - Tesla and SpaceX
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Sep 22, 2023 Joe Justice, expert on self-organizing teams at Tesla and SpaceX, discusses their innovative operating model based on continuous discovery, delivery, and improvement. Topics include parallel processing, company restructuring, self-organizing teams and work environment, intensity and self-care, the founder mindset, urgency for sustainable energy, team alignment, and pastoral care at Tesla.
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Career Path
- Joe Justice worked at Amazon, Microsoft, and John Deere, implementing WikiSpeed's model.
- This led him to defense work with major contractors and the Australian military, before joining Tesla.
Tesla's Unique Vertical Integration
- Tesla's factory differs from traditional automakers by vertically integrating everything in one building.
- This setup fosters intense cross-functional collaboration and holistic product understanding, unlike geographically dispersed teams.
WikiSpeed's Modular Approach
- At WikiSpeed, Joe defined interfaces for modules without predefining the modules themselves.
- This allowed for decentralized, parallel development as long as contributors met these predefined interfaces.