It's amazing what profound effects the culture of a company can have on its results, and how that changes over time.
> He said the early team had "an extreme level of paranoia" because of the difficulty of learning how to design and launch rockets. But now, “the vast amount of people at the company today have only ever seen success… when you’ve only seen success, you don’t fear failure quite as much."
> Musk said the night before each launch, he sends a company-wide email asking employees to send him an email or call his cell phone if they have any reason to believe the rocket should not launch.
I think it's good such realities are being realized, then handled in a gentle (but firm) way.
> He said the early team had "an extreme level of paranoia" because of the difficulty of learning how to design and launch rockets. But now, “the vast amount of people at the company today have only ever seen success… when you’ve only seen success, you don’t fear failure quite as much."
> Musk said the night before each launch, he sends a company-wide email asking employees to send him an email or call his cell phone if they have any reason to believe the rocket should not launch.
I think it's good such realities are being realized, then handled in a gentle (but firm) way.
Source: http://mashable.com/2015/07/20/spacex-launch-failure-strut/