| Some businesses run like autocracies, and some run like democracies. In my experience, neither approach is particularly effective. That’s because autocratic leaders think they have all the answers, but in reality don’t know enough. And democratic leaders who crowdsource decision-making will filter in a lot of bad ideas. That dilemma led to me creating an idea meritocracy at Bridgewater, where we used analytics to better understand where people were weak or strong. That way, we knew whose opinion was most likely to be correct in any context. |
Raymond Thomas Dalio is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist who has served as co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates since 1985. He founded Bridgewater in 1975 in New York. Within ten years, it was infused with a US$5 million investment from the World Bank's retirement fund.
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