Bridgewater's Ray Dalio demonstrates radical transparency
Ray Dalio runs Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, according to the principles of "radical truth" and "radical transparency." Employees rate each other across over 100 attributes on a 1-10 scale in an iPad app called "Dots." Dalio demoed the app to the TED 2017 audience in April, now publicly available to watch.
6 minute read (and recommend you watch the TED talk) - fascinating insight into this unique organisation, that is clearly doing something right to have grown to where it is now. Imagine if we were all open to a little of this, how much better (or shorter) would meetings be ... ^ADJ
The Serious Fun of Shared Experiences at Work
In 2016, a Yale study showed that experiences are amplified and more meaningful if they are shared. As teams bond through shared experience, their emotional intelligence increases. Why? Because each member is able to learn from one another and observe one another’s emotions and reactions. As a simple example, consider a team dinner where colleagues learn working norms. Over a meal, one can learn working styles, pitfalls to avoid with a boss or client, and the culture of how work is done in the team.
5 minute read - some interesting data and research ^ADJ
How to Do Walking Meetings Right
A walking meeting is simply that: a meeting that takes place during a walk instead of in an office, boardroom, or coffee shop where meetings are commonly held.
3 minute read - simple but effective technique ^ADJ
4 Ways to Improve Your Strategic Thinking Skills
If you’ve ever received feedback that you “need to be more strategic,” you know how frustrating it can feel. To add insult to injury, the feedback rarely comes with any concrete guidance on what to do about it. One of my coaching clients, Lisa, a vice president of HR, was in this situation and explains, “I was just told to think bigger picture and to be more strategic. It felt like I had been given the definition of a word by using the same word. It just wasn’t helpful.”
So what specific steps can you take to be more strategic in your current role?
7 minute read
Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving
In a corner of Alphabet’s campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars. No journalist has ever seen it in action until now. They call it Carcraft, after the popular game World of Warcraft.
3 minute read