Leadership today is much different for years gone by. Today’s workplace is constantly changing and requires leaders that are visionaries, result oriented, courageous, tenacious, change makers and who are innovative. Great leaders are hard to find however, their qualities are unmatched and they will stand out significantly among their peers. One such leader is Elon Musk, one of America’s most successful leader, inventor, entrepreneur and investor (Biography.com, 2016). He is famously known for being the CEO of Tesla Motors the electric-car manufacturer, co-founder of PayPal a money transfer system and SpaceX a commercial space program (Biography.com, 2016). Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa to parents Maye, a model and public health teacher and …show more content…
Elon Musk also founded Space Exploration Technologies or SpaceX, which is committed to space exploration and the discovery of renewable and clean energy sources (Dodds, 2015). He is also a member of the Mars society, which is a nonprofit organization that supports the exploration of Mars especially to establish a greenhouse on Mars. in order to enable Musk’s project, SpaceX has been developing its own rocket technology (Dodds, 2015). In 2004, Musk achieved his prestigious position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tesla Motors (Dodds, 2015). At Tesla, he oversaw the cars Tesla Motors built and after the financial crisis of 2008 became the CEO and the product architect at Tesla which is now the producer of the most advanced electric vehicles and electric powertrains in the world (Successstory.com, 2016). Musk later created the concept and financial capital for SolarCity, the largest solar power systems provider in the United States (Dodds,