Tesla and Trump both thrive on chaos — but Elon Musk's car company needs to chill out if it's going to succeed

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Trump is never going to change, but CEO Elon Musk has a chance this year to reset Tesla's paradigm.

grows, chaos isn't helping to improve its chances to prosper.I've argued that there are no minds on planet Earth more different that Donald Trump's and Elon Musk's. However, Musk is a canny operator and always has been — and it's clear that he's learned a few things from the Tweeter In Chief.

You wouldn't necessarily know any of this because the Musk/Tesla chaos engine has been in overdrive for more than a year now. I can forgive you if you've lost track of Musk's many, many controversies, but we got a reminder this week when his latest dustup with the Security and Exchange Commission had a hearing before a judge in New York .

This doesn't always lead to #TOTALFAIL. Musk's dream of a massively automated assembly line for Model 3 sedans ran into the same problem that every effort at massive automation has in the auto industry — it didn't work — and so Tesla quickly threw up a tented line in its factory parking lot. It wouldn't have looked unfamiliar to Henry Ford. And it was widely ridiculed.It's time of Elon to hire a COO.

General Motors, for example, is a rigorously disciplined business that racked up over 650,000 vehicle sales in the first quarter. Even when GM has been in trouble — it did go bankrupt during the financial crisis, after all — it's essential character has never been chaotic.

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I feel like this also applies to the presidency...but I could be wrong

EMPTY VESSELS make a lot of noise

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