mono-stereo It depends on what you mean by toxic. For example, you can be good at making money and still be a terrible wanker to work for. The two arn’t mutually exclsuive.
You’ve clearly missed the point.
Have a look again at the tweet Amps posted which I was replying to - I was refuting the insinuation it was trying to make that:
a "Harvard study found hiring one highly productive “toxic worker” does more damage to a company’s bottom line than employing more several less productive, but more cooperative workers", and that Musk doesn’t realise he’s an example of the “toxic workers” referenced.
It’s clearly nonsense for a few reasons:
1) As you say, Musk is the boss/CEO - the Harvard study was not looking at the behaviour of CEOs, but rather evaluating if the “toxic” behaviour of typical employees was related to bottom line.
2) Again, as you say, Musk is good at making money - he has typically greatly increased the “bottom line” of his companies at an incredible rate, as opposed to doing them “damage”.
3) Yet again, as you say, it is also important to consider what is meant by “toxic” - and the Harvard study referenced is highly questionable on this, for instance it comes to its conclusion despite the fact one of the key findings of its data was that "those who state that rules should never be broken are 20% more likely to be terminated for toxic behavior” than those who think “sometimes it is necessary to break the rules to accomplish something” - despite the fact most people would probably be more likely to equate being more prone to breaking rules as being somehow more “toxic”.
So the Harvard study was more trying to claim that if you’re a CEO, you don’t want (your word) “a terrible wanker” working for you. Maybe this is true, maybe it isn’t, but the Harvard study doesn’t do a particularly good job of answering that question. Furthermore, the Harvard study also says nothing about whether being “a terrible wanker” has anything to do with a CEO’s performance.
In sum, it makes no sense to try and use that tweet as a “gotcha” of Musk, as the original tweeter, and also Amps, have tried to do.
