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Ray Dalio’s “Principles” is a manual for turning workplaces even more hellish…

by NATHAN J. ROBINSON

One of the hazards of becoming extremely wealthy is that you can be fooled into thinking that you are also extremely wise. Wealth is power, and power is dangerous, because people tend to go mad with it.

Yet if you are surrounded all day by people who praise your genius and defer to your authority, you may have a hard time realizing when you have slipped into grandiosity and megalomania. One good way of checking is to ask yourself the following question: “Do the things I say sound like things a Bond villain might say?” If the answer is “yes,” you should probably rethink your life.

Ray Dalio is one of the richest and most influential men in the world. He is the founder and chairman of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund.

Bridgewater is known in the financial industry for two things: its extremely high levels of investment success and its extremely unusual corporate culture.

The company operates according to a strict set of rules promulgated by Dalio that aims to eliminate emotion and ego from corporate decision-making.

Dalio’s “principles,” of which there are well over 100, emphasize strict rationality, which Dalio believes necessitates radical honesty, transparancy, and accountability.

And by “radical,” I do mean radical. For Dalio, honesty means employees are encouraged to tell coworkers exactly what they think of them, even if it might be deeply hurtful. (“Pain + Reflection = Progress,” Dalio writes.)