Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Joe is an amazing change agent who has helped influence organizations like Amazon, Toyota, Tesla, Apple, and leads WIKISPEED.
Joe kicks things off talking about his time at Tesla. Intensive 12 hour days that leave you soar by the end. It helps that you’ve gotten really good at machine learning and robotics control.
Agile at Tesla… what is that? Higher speed with same or better quality by driving up the value of people. Emphasis on Definition of Ready and Definition of Done work.
The enablers for such growth and change: 12 hour shifts and respect for people. Learning from each other all the time every day.
Hyper flexible teams. An environment where your job and goal can change drastically hour to hour. What makes it possible? Concept of Walk Up Simple. The goal is to be able to walk up and in less than 5 minutes completely grasp how you can contribute. Aggressive swap ability, internal business Agility. The focused fire fighting ability. To quickly focus 10,000 people on a problem within minutes.
Commonality between CEOs Joe has worked with is zero tolerance for people not working on things that are directly aligned with the strategy of the company.
Practical example of rapid agility with the Tesla giga factory. Buying the land and setting up a tent constantly analyzing (every 3 hours) is this helping us make more batteries? Once the building is enclosed they take out the tent and ask: Velocity of new battery design, new battery build and new battery test doesn’t go up, they gut the building. They failed. An outcome-based company! Did we accelerate?
The level of rockstardom had zero to do with anything whether than how did I choose to apply myself today? Tesla doesn’t care about credentials. Musk doesn’t care if you graduated high school. There is a pretty interesting business case for ignoring it entirely.
Humans are powerful things.
Dive down deeper into the teams and accountability. Each team having instantaneous hiring & firing decisions. Complete transparency into performance within and across teams. Couple this with radical transparency.
The future of humanity and government.
Info @ wikispeed . org
WikiSpeed Srint Review: youtube.com/watch?v=GuvM-CL0pAI
Joe is an amazing change agent who has helped influence organizations like Amazon, Toyota, Tesla, Apple, and leads WIKISPEED.
Joe kicks things off talking about his time at Tesla. Intensive 12 hour days that leave you soar by the end. It helps that you’ve gotten really good at machine learning and robotics control.
Agile at Tesla… what is that? Higher speed with same or better quality by driving up the value of people. Emphasis on Definition of Ready and Definition of Done work.
The enablers for such growth and change: 12 hour shifts and respect for people. Learning from each other all the time every day.
Hyper flexible teams. An environment where your job and goal can change drastically hour to hour. What makes it possible? Concept of Walk Up Simple. The goal is to be able to walk up and in less than 5 minutes completely grasp how you can contribute. Aggressive swap ability, internal business Agility. The focused fire fighting ability. To quickly focus 10,000 people on a problem within minutes.
Commonality between CEOs Joe has worked with is zero tolerance for people not working on things that are directly aligned with the strategy of the company.
Practical example of rapid agility with the Tesla giga factory. Buying the land and setting up a tent constantly analyzing (every 3 hours) is this helping us make more batteries? Once the building is enclosed they take out the tent and ask: Velocity of new battery design, new battery build and new battery test doesn’t go up, they gut the building. They failed. An outcome-based company! Did we accelerate?
The level of rockstardom had zero to do with anything whether than how did I choose to apply myself today? Tesla doesn’t care about credentials. Musk doesn’t care if you graduated high school. There is a pretty interesting business case for ignoring it entirely.
Humans are powerful things.
Dive down deeper into the teams and accountability. Each team having instantaneous hiring & firing decisions. Complete transparency into performance within and across teams. Couple this with radical transparency.
The future of humanity and government.
Info @ wikispeed . org
WikiSpeed Srint Review: youtube.com/watch?v=GuvM-CL0pAI
