The Leader I Admire and Revere: Elon Musk BN171040 BUS 500 Organizational Leadership Professor: Shirley Chuo Westcliff University 17/09/2017 Abstract Elon Musk is a global hero as an innovator and tech entrepreneur, he is primarily know for his involvement with Tesla and SpaceX both of which are companies striving to make the world a better place, which can also be seen as his primary vision through what he has worked for and what he is striving to achieve. His ability to envision are backed by his ability to see the grand perspective, challenge the status quo, inspire change, identify a problem and come up with problem solving innovations which have been key factors of success for him and his companies. Though he has a tendency …show more content…
He was also one of the prominent members of the online payment system giant Paypal (Boardroom Insiders, Inc., 2015) and is a visionary behind the Hyperloop rail system and the Boring Company. Known for his ambitious projects to revolutionize not only the world we live in but his ambitions to colonize mars and make humankind an interplanetary civilization is a story to share and lesson to learn which makes Musk a leader to look up …show more content…
By the age of 12 he had already programmed a computer game and sold it for a profit. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania in Physics and Business and started his first venture ZIp2 corporation just 2 days after joining Stanford University and dropping out from its PhD in energy physics program in 1995, since then he hasn't looked back and is a billionaire and a leader that many of today's youths look up to, even being called a 'real life iron man'. (Boardroom Insiders, Inc., 2015) drawing comparisons from Marvel's billionaire superhero scientist who was a fanatic of technology and a person who had the vision to do a greater good to the world just like Elon Musk is doing in real life. There are a lots of qualities that make a greate leader but the things I admire the most about Elon Musk are: