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Behind Elon Musk’s Management Philosophy: First Principles

The entrepreneur has long talked about a physics-based, problem-solving viewpoint that his new Twitter CEO invoked in her first memo to staff

Photo Illustration by Emil Lendof/The Wall Street Journal; iStock, Reuters
By Tim Higgins

Linda Yaccarino understands the assignment. 

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