How do leaders manage to balance being CEO of multiple companies? Elon Musk with Tesla and SpaceX. Carlos Ghosn flying between Paris and Tokyo to cohead Renault and Nissan. It’s incredible… is their time management just really on point? What qualities set them apart from only being a partner at a consulting firm?

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I can't speak much to Ghosn since I'm not as familiar with his career, but Musk has a handful of key lieutenants that run much of the day to day activities at his companies--Shotwell at SpaceX, for example.

That's the key to success for any exec at that level to run multiple things, to have key lieutenants who run the day to day.

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Not sure but really I interesting question - based on very fleeting knowledge I’m guessing it’s some combination of the right vision, strong ability to identify the main pressure points, delegation plus ability to know when to dive in hard themself, and abnormally high capacity?

I know those are super high level and I’m curious to see if anyone provides more meaty insights, I’d love to learn

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I don’t exactly how they do it, but I have seen CEOs of much smaller companies manage similar types of commitments. You simply have to be very good a delegating, have excellent deputies in these companies, and be an excellent communicator

The last piece is critical. Because they are CEOs, their voice carry a lot. So they can’t be seen as undermining the deputies but at the same time, they need to be clear as to what they want for the company.

Time management varies depending on how deeply they want to be involved in the decision making

Especially with Musk I am confused, as he posts Xeets almost every five minutes AND is in the top 20 in Diablo at the same time. How does this guy sleep or live?

Don't like Honda pairing with Nissan. It will be pre and post merger cars.

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