Elon Musk, destroyer of meetings

I love Elon Musk. He's one beard away from becoming every-man CEO/Evil Genius Hank Scorpio. In 2018 he sent a letter to Tesla employees laying out 6 ways for his business to be more productive. Elon being Elon, this wasn't just some business mumbo-jumbo like streamlining vertical integration. It's something that, as a lifer, I hold near and dear to my heart; driving a stake through the heart of the business meeting. Sitting in a PB4T, budget report, or really any meeting with more than 4 people is the equivalent of going to a funeral where nobody knows the person who died but everyone has to give a speech. There are coffee and donuts but nobody is saying what the really want to say: "WHY ARE WE ALL HERE DOING THIS?!"

Elon Musk's golden truths about meetings:
1. Nix big meetings
2. Ditch frequent meetings too
3. Leave a meeting if you’re not contributing
4. Drop jargon
5. Communicate directly, irrespective of hierarchy
6. Follow logic, not rules

I feel personally targeted by his obliteration of ~40% of my time spent in the military. All of these ideas are grounds for court-martial in practice. Could you imagine any meeting with department heads and the COC where a JO fly-on-the-wall just gets up and walks out because they didn't have anything to contribute? I'm pretty sure any chief in the room would spear him to the deck, put him in a sleeper hold and prop his lifeless body back up in a chair. Every meeting that started in the Navy would just involve the COC taking seats then half the room walking out. Anarchy and chaos.

I'm not even going to get acknowledge the jargon bit, I'll just let this 400+ page dictionary speak for itself.

The Navy has long been touting how great it is to be run like a business. Maybe it's time to really embrace that principle and follow the example set by the greatest businessman alive? Maybe go electric to space?