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- Walter Isaacson said Elon Musk uses multiple tactics when it comes to selecting leaders.
- Musk uses long stretches of silence and gauges how staff respond to criticism, the biographer said.
- He also likes to use skip-level meetings to chat with workers lower on the corporate ladder, Isaacson said.
Elon Musk has a special intuition or "neural network" when it comes to picking leaders at his companies, the billionaire's biographer Walter Isaacson said.