#358 Originals 20

Originals 20 Think Differently Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates managed his employees well. Known as "Steve Jobs" of Investing, Dalio encouraged new employees and old to comment on company's policies. Finding Complainers Most managers say "Don't bring me problems; bring me answers." This is wrong. When you ask your employee to come to meeting full-packed with solutions to the problems of his department, he isn't encouraged to speak our his other ideas and does not learn from other people's problems. Google has a team of "complainers". The engineers at the complainer team need to speak up all the problems they see. Karl Weick: "Argue like you are right; listen like you are wrong." Critical Feedback Tom Gerrity, Index Group, hired an expert to give comments towards him in front of 200 employees. Employees were all encouraged to speak up their real comments. Asking new employees to give comments of the company was the better time than asking those who were leaving the company. Adam Grant was hired once by Goldman Sachs to encourage the best workers to improve their place of work. Movers and Shapers Dalio studied Franklin and Einstein. Dalio resolved those originals he had met into three main traits: Shapers--independent thinkers and rebels who raised a lot of questions; Honest critic--who didn't mind who they were talking to; Not afraid of risks--who were afraid of not succeeding, not afraid of failure -- Hosting provided by SoundOn