a HUGE hurtle....engaged employees

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/0..._headlines&carta-url

"In short, Musk can’t transform Twitter, or even keep it moving forward, without a workforce of highly capable developers, designers, product and policy thinkers who truly believe in his plans for the company. And that is exactly what, by all accounts, he does not have at Twitter right now.

Twitter workers face a reality they’ve long feared: Elon Musk as owner

In his previous ventures, Musk assembled from the ground up, over a period of years, a staff of his own choosing. At Twitter, he’s walking in the door of an already large, established company where many employees are fearful, distrustful and alienated by his tweets and public statements evincing a simplistic view of the work they do."

Well, it's not like he has to assemble a large group of rocket scientists. Those in the company who don't understand the goal of having an unbiased free speech platform should be immediately fired and replaced. Not sure why this would be a huge hurdle since there's probably at least a million people who would be qualified and eager to work there.

U MISSED THIS.......it will take some time

So Musk has two choices. He could try to win over Twitter’s existing employees by taking the time to listen, meet with them, learn from them and then articulate a vision that incorporates their own ideas and expertise. That would require him to use skills — listening, diplomacy, tolerance for criticism — that haven’t been his hallmarks to date.

Or he could clean house, instituting mandates that weed out anyone skeptical of his leadership and remaking the staff in his own image. That might be more Musk’s style, and perhaps he could pull it off. But even in the best-case scenario, it would involve a period of turmoil, a dramatic and sudden loss of institutional memory and capacity and expertise, and lots of ugliness as the culling plays out.

THAT'S the ugliness I have seen first hand......the people who have the cumulative knowledge (OVER MANY YEARS) EXIT AND THEN "the back channels that were being utilized r POOF,GONE.....leaving
shambles of any smooth process.

Lets say Musk was a hard leftist that didn't want there to be any big and popular news sources that was critical of Democrats and their policies. Now lets say he decided to buy Fox News with a massive pile of cash so he could make it how he wanted it.

What percentage of FOX employees would not get Elon's billionaire boot in their ass?

You can't change a person's ideology with a paycheck and a good talk.

homeagain wrote: U MISSED THIS.......it will take some time

So Musk has two choices. He could try to win over Twitter’s existing employees by taking the time to listen, meet with them, learn from them and then articulate a vision that incorporates their own ideas and expertise. That would require him to use skills — listening, diplomacy, tolerance for criticism — that haven’t been his hallmarks to date.

Or he could clean house, instituting mandates that weed out anyone skeptical of his leadership and remaking the staff in his own image. That might be more Musk’s style, and perhaps he could pull it off. But even in the best-case scenario, it would involve a period of turmoil, a dramatic and sudden loss of institutional memory and capacity and expertise, and lots of ugliness as the culling plays out.

THAT'S the ugliness I have seen first hand......the people who have the cumulative knowledge (OVER MANY YEARS) EXIT AND THEN "the back channels that were being utilized r POOF,GONE.....leaving
shambles of any smooth process.

Elon Musk seems to be a pretty good manager, even inspirational when he created Tesla and Boring. But when he aquires a company like Twitter with a bunch of whiny liberals...maybe Twitter people should let Musk run things for a couple months before they overreact?

They all need to be flushed, just to make sure no turds are still floating around.