April 26, 2021
Ray Dalio loves personality tests. The billionaire founder of Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund, which doubles as a kind of workplace social experiment, is famously interested in questions of character and self-improvement. His employees use iPads to rate each other on various attributes in real time and are encouraged to confront one another publicly in the name of radical transparency. So it makes sense that he’s long sought insights into staffers’ psyches with a panoply of tests, including Myers-Briggs, Workplace Personality Inventory, Team Dimensions Profile, and Golden Personality Profiler.
Now he’s created what he hopes will be the one personality test to rule them all: PrinciplesYou, a free assessment that Dalio developed in collaboration with psychologists Adam Grant, Brian Little, and John Golden.
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so, it really is an all-encompassing issue and we cannot solve our other problems unless we do fight climate change. the sort of radical transparency approach that you took, specifically in your senate campaign against ted cruz that was so effective, you ve carried some of that into the presidential campaign, as well, essentially showing everything that you re doing all the time, so people get to see you in every aspect of this campaign. right. made me wonder if that makes the whole town hall experience sort of different. when you re interacting with potential voters in the early states and stuff, they are people who are seen you skateboard around a whataburger parking lot. they ve seen you drive to the dentist. i wonder if that changes the way people get to know you. it might. i think you re seeing a super engaged, very involved electorate. i think some feared with 21 plus candidates you d have folks tuning out. and instead, they re tuning in, they re coming out to these town
book called thirst and jessica is principal at johnson a security firm in the bronx. great to see you both. we featured both of your businesses on the show, because you both have fantastic stories, and now we get to learn something else from you guys. nice to see you. thanks for having us back. so good to see you both too. for those who don t know charity water, scott, you started with nothing and raised more thanes 3 than $320 million? yes. helped more than 8 million people around the world. yep. so you really run your nonprofit like a for-profit, why i m intrigued how you ve grown. capture ourselves. we say business, no. it s organization. organizatio organization. and one thing you ve learned along the way? radical transparency. we embraced this 12 years ago.
the campaign finance restrictions that force money into dark corners and declaring for radical transparency. so i think that really the heart hoff it is the kind of polarization that is keeping republicans and democrats from working together to pass smaller more responsible solutions. sandra: elizabeth, i want to go to the student march tomorrow. right now we have a live picture of the parkland school kids speaking at the museum in washington d.c., a few blocks from capitol hill there. they re going to be marching for their lives for action on gun control. some in this omnibus bill as far as gun control, is enough being done right now on this as we see those kids about to march in the capitol tomorrow? well, it was a small step that was included in the omnibus bill. the reality is that any step forward is a positive step. more has to be done.