I am always encouraging my students to read about business leaders. There are many good books out there on leaders as diverse as Phil Knight (Nike), Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and Jack Ma (Alibaba) and while they are all on the shelves of my bookcase at home and in the school library, the book that has captured the imagination and interest of my students the most is about Elon Musk. From the various TED videos, press cuttings and news articles I have looked at, he is arguably the most significant individual in the world of business right now.
Musk’s strategic vision over a wide range of areas is groundbreaking and revolutionary. He was one of the founders of PayPal, and had already shown entrepreneurial promise while at university, where he set up his fraternity house as a rentable bar/ party venue so that he could fund his way through his first degree. He then dropped out of Stanford University’s graduate programme, as he recognised that the internet was a growing opportunity that he simply had to take advantage of.
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