{"id":59791,"date":"2017-09-06T08:33:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T12:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59791"},"modified":"2017-09-06T08:33:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T12:33:22","slug":"bridgewaters-ray-dalio-dives-deeper-into-the-principles-of-tough-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2017\/bridgewaters-ray-dalio-dives-deeper-into-the-principles-of-tough-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Bridgewater\u2019s Ray Dalio Dives Deeper Into the \u2018Principles\u2019 of Tough Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(New York Times) In 1993, Ray Dalio, the chairman of what is today the largest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates, received a memo signed by his top three lieutenants that was startlingly honest in its assessment of him.   It was a performance review of sorts, and not in a good way. After mentioning his positive attributes, they spelled out the negatives. \u201cRay sometimes says or does things to employees which makes them feel incompetent, unnecessary, humiliated, overwhelmed, belittled, pressed or otherwise bad,\u201d the memo read. \u201cIf he doesn\u2019t manage people well, growth will be stunted and we will all be affected.\u201d   To Mr. Dalio, the message was both devastating and a wake-up call. His reaction: \u201cUgh. That hurt and surprised me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/04\/business\/ray-dalio-book-bridgewater.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(New York Times) In 1993, Ray Dalio, the chairman of what is today the largest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates, received a memo signed by his top three lieutenants that was startlingly honest in its assessment of him. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59792,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59791\/revisions\/59792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}