One of the oldest but most accurate apothegms is that “actions speak louder than words.” In organizational life, I’ve observed that people don’t believe what they read or what they’re told, they believe what they see.

The major media have just reported that Elon Musk has fired about 500 Tesla employees—all of them in the unit designated to design and build electric charging stations which are supposed to power the cars within and between cities, on short trips and long, throughout the United States and beyond.

I think what he sees right now is the writing on the wall.

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