Jonathan McNeill had already founded and sold six startups when SherylSandberg introduced him to Elon Musk, who was looking for help at Tesla.McNeill was steeped in the lean principles that had made Toyota a globalpowerhouse—principles focused on achieving efficiency and optimizationby incrementally improving existing systems and processes. What helearned from Elon at Tesla was its antithesis, an approach that requiredradical rethinking to explode the status quo, attack complexity, and setseemingly unrealistic goals. Elon called this five-step framework “TheAlgorithm.”Question every requirement.Delete every possible step in the process. Simplify and optimize. Accelerate cycle time. Automate.In this book, McNeill details this tremendously powerful set of tools,which brought Tesla from a production crisis that threatened to derailit to a period of hypergrowth. During his tenure, revenue boomed from$2B to $20B in just 30 months. Since his departure from Tesla, McNeillhas used The Algorithm in every enterprise he has worked with tosupercharge speed, efficiency, innovation, and growth. Featuring casestudies from Tesla and SpaceX, as well as from Lululemon, GM, andcompanies of various sizes across industries, he reveals how anybusiness can do the same and achieve the unimaginable.
