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 arnât mutually exclsuive.
Youâve 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 âtoxic workerâ does more damage to a companyâs bottom line than employing more several less productive, but more cooperative workers", and that Musk doesnât realise heâs an example of the âtoxic workersâ referenced.
Itâs 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 âtoxicâ 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 âbottom lineâ of his companies at an incredible rate, as opposed to doing them âdamageâ.
3) Yet again, as you say, it is also important to consider what is meant by âtoxicâ - 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 behaviorâ than those who think âsometimes it is necessary to break the rules to accomplish somethingâ - despite the fact most people would probably be more likely to equate being more prone to breaking rules as being somehow more âtoxicâ.
So the Harvard study was more trying to claim that if youâre a CEO, you donât want (your word) âa terrible wankerâ working for you. Maybe this is true, maybe it isnât, but the Harvard study doesnât do a particularly good job of answering that question. Furthermore, the Harvard study also says nothing about whether being âa terrible wankerâ has anything to do with a CEOâs performance.
In sum, it makes no sense to try and use that tweet as a âgotchaâ of Musk, as the original tweeter, and also Amps, have tried to do.
