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Evaluation:

 Lacking specific information about its core values and culture management
system, and using the absence of negative information about employee
dissatisfaction and the existence of customer dissatisfaction, we assign a

quantitative evaluation score of “3” to Tesla for its organizational culture
and culture management system.

Other Factors

As noted above, there are other factors of relevance, including leadership and the
processes of managing financial results. Tesla is fortunate to have Elon, who is
perhaps the apotheosis of visionaries, as its Alpha leader. Tesla is clearly also
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skilled at financial management.

THE BOTTOM LINE: IS TESLA BEING “BUILT FOR

SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS”?

The core question that we are addressing is whether Tesla is being “Built for
Sustainable Success”?

Based upon our research and experience in working with companies to develop as
sustainably successful organizations, we have:

1) created a data base of strategic development scores required for
different levels of success over the long run, and also
2) created a set of classes of companies that achieved different levels of
development.

72 See Eric Flamholtz, “TESLA’S “GROWING PAINS” AND ELON MUSK’S LEADERSHIP,” Linkedin,
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