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million per car delivered by Tesla, while it places a value of $10,000 per car

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delivered by GM.
Regardless, Tesla skeptics remain legion, and Tesla is among the most shorted of
stocks. It must be noted, however, that shorting Tesla has been very bad idea for

quite some time.

Nevertheless, the issue remains: “Who is right: the “Tesla Bulls” or the “Tesla
Bears”?

WHO IS RIGHT: THE “TESLA BULLS” OR THE

“TESLA BEARS”?

The question most people ask is: “Who is right: the “Tesla Bulls” or the “Tesla
Bears”? That is the wrong question. The key question is: Is Tesla Being “Built
for Sustainable Success”? That is a very different, yet critical question.

This article uses an empirically validated organizational development framework
that explains what is required to be a sustainably successful organization to address
the question of whether Tesla is being “built for sustainable success.”℠ The

framework has several applications. It provides a methodology to assess whether
Tesla or any organization is being built for sustainable success. Similarly, it provides

a template for building a sustainably successful organization. It has been applied in
many organizations ranging from start-ups to members of Fortune 100.

This newsletter article consists of two parts:

 Part I presents the model for developing sustainably successful organizations,
and

 Part II will apply it to Tesla.

39 Ben Levinsohn, The Trader “Thanks, Apple for the Stock markets All-time High,” Barron’s, August
24, 2020, p. M1.

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