[mihaaly]

I am unsure if fast turns is a thing of hierarchical organizations, especially the successful ones, what I see that the bigger (some say more successful) it is the slower it turns. Period. Also it's will to turn is lower by getting bigger, trying to stick to past success and methods as much as pussible because every change is constly and every change is risky, and the members don't want to risk the livelyhood of their family, rightfully. When have a choice then will rather not turn but go straight when it is big. I admit some big turn very quick, like Elon Musk with Twitter, but thats the other wrong end of the scale, finding the balance is not easy and most of the time unsuccessful except for a short period. And those could be attributed to luck in many many cases too. We remember the success stories not the failures (except the huge ones) and being sentimental with those being successful and gone. Big organizations' success come and go, rare to shine more than several decade and could die easily if the decisions are wrong (or forget to make decisions). How is their decision making is better then if they go away or fall? They grow quick, then comes an other due to the constant need for competition and the old one goes or falls back. The need for quick decisions and neckbraking pace is actually fuelled with quick decisions and neckbraking race of the organizations themselves and call it business setting if that was not their making but some kind of external condition. Also not always (or rarely) turn to a direction that is good for a society and not just for those very few being in the position of making the decision (mostly it is coincidental or side effect then). Also success of a hierarchical organization does not necessarily mean it is making any good for customers and people but just being big enough to force its views and interests on others. That's not really success and good then just a social form of violence.

Decisions are not easy when it affects lots of people and that's why those should be made as carefully as possible in the settings available and we know from social studies, it is proven, that individual decision making is quick, group decision making is accurate, in overall. For the group of people in the long run group decisions was better. As a side effect it was not making life unbearably quick by themselves and may eliminate the need for some of the quick decisions (some, as there are aspects outside of human groups that mandate actions, those cannot be eliminated).

Mostly philosophizing above.

[onphonenow]

Interesting - so in your view Elon as the top person in Twitter hierarchy will not be able to change Twitter except very slowly ?

[AstralStorm]

My view (not OP) is that Elon will break the company and get it to fail.

He does not understand that Twitter is an ad driven business which also means PR is critical or you don't get advertisers.

Most businesses that tried to pivot from ad driven to subscribers have failed. One that tried to do so in so dramatic a way? Never heard of it.

Elon is not doing a simple management style change, he's changing everything with next to zero money. Unlike a startup, a company the size of Twitter cannot compromise what is feeding them without failing quickly. A startup can survive on small VC funding for a pivot, Twitter eats millions of dollars to just operate.

[PedroBatista]

He understands what Twitter is and he and his buddies ( jack for ex. ) want to turn it into something else.

If they’ll succeed that’s a whole different matter. Not only because they were “wrong” but also because “reality” will have a say in that.

You invest all you money building a nuclear reactor in 1929, you’ll be not wrong but the timing was off.

[forty]

Timing being an important part of a strategy, I'd say wrong timing still counts as being wrong.

[onphonenow]

That sounds like large changes? Even if Twitter fails?

[shadowfoxx]

Not saying this is the case but an outlier (exception) to a rule does not disprove the rule.

So you're right, Elon came in and is making changes quite rapidly but that doesn't mean this is standard for large businesses.