«If Ray Dalio's business principles
of radical truth and radical transparency make him crazy, then he's crazy like a buddha.»
Not exact matches
«By enabling one kind
of freedom we restricted another,» said Hackett, sounding very much like the corporate intellectual he is but also a bold
radical, willing to speak
truth to the power
of his own adopted industry.
[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out
of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability
of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop
of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and
truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance
of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting
of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth
of the top 1 %
of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?
Ray Dalio, chairman and chief investment officer
of Bridgewater Associates, discusses meaningful work and meaningful relationships through
radical truth and
radical transparency.
Traditionalists find themselves ill at ease» to put it mildly» in today's postmodernist intellectual world, a world whose «animating spirit,» as Gertrude Himmelfarb puts it, «is a
radical relativism and skepticism that rejects any idea
of truth, knowledge, or objectivity» («The Christian University: A Call to Counterrevolution,» FT, January).
Yet there are also some urgent
truths that are being badly mangled in the confused agitations
of radical environmentalism or, as it is called, deep ecology.
And the infuriating
truth is that it's all the
radicals that do and say wrong, horrible, cruel, and stupid things «in the name
of Christ» that make the news.
Socrates initiates a
radical departure from such materialism into a realm
of spirituality: each human, he avers, is inhabited by a soul, a conduit to the realm
of eternal
truths.
The polarization is so deep that when, in 1996, the late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin founded the Catholic Common Ground Initiative as a means
of addressing division in the church, he was criticized by some liberal Catholics who thought that the project was not
radical enough and by some
of his brother cardinals who believed that it jeopardized the essential
truths of the faith.
Without foundations, there are no
truths that can mandate
radical change, and the stereotypes
of left and right by which he defines «social justice,» along with his religio - patriotic flights
of «pure, joyous hope» in limitless change, seem no more than quaint and fanciful.
I now try to follow the way
of unconditional love,
of radical hospitality,
of loving - kindness,
of compassion,
of mercy,
of speaking
truth to power, the way
of forgiveness,
of reconciliation, and the pursuit
of justice.
As mentioned above: I hear Jesus describing the way
of unconditional love,
of radical hospitality,
of loving - kindness,
of compassion,
of mercy,
of speaking
truth to power, the way
of forgiveness,
of reconciliation, and the pursuit
of justice.
According to Hans Jonas, the birth
of modern science was bound up with the advent
of a
radical new view
of reality, a «technological ontology» that conflates nature and artifice, knowing and making,
truth and utility.
Other things are thrown in too, like a sense
of meaning and purpose, finding the
truth, being prepared for the end,
radical service, self - development, you name it.
Once we grasp the
radical Christian
truth that a radically profane history is the inevitable consummation
of an actual movement
of the sacred into the profane, then we can be liberated from every preincarnate form
of Spirit, and accept our destiny as an occasion for the realization in the immediacy
of experience
of the self - emptying or self - annihilation
of the transcendent and primordial God in the passion and death
of Christ.
We should state quite frankly, especially if we take the «hierarchy
of Christian
truths» seriously, that the doctrinal differences which divide the modern Protestant Churches are much deeper andmore
radical than those that separated the original Protestant denominations from the Tridentine confession.
While its sad that many Christians forget this fact in our culture today, bowing into the world and compromising the
truth of God for comfort, its also said that some groups are hated for speaking «the
truth» rather than displaying the
radical love
of Christ.
Sometimes, people overthink things and yet with such little creativity - the
truth of who Jesus (incarnate God) is far more
radical than anything Crossan could up with.
«Science deified» is scientism,
radical empiricism, materialism, or naturalism, an implicit or explicit rejection
of all nonquantifiable realities or
truths, including the
truths of reason.
This leads some men to pick and choose among the myths, retaining those which are not too impossible and rejecting others, but this procedure fails to get at the root
of the matter, for the
radical question is whether the
truth of the New Testament can exist outside its outmoded mythological picture
of the world.
Wherever life may take us, regardless
of our choices or our roles or our story, regardless
of the seasons
of our lives,
of our failures and imperfections, let us make living like we are beloved warriors the
radical discipline
of our lives, filling our minds and our hearts with the
truth of Jesus Christ, and the goodness
of the freedom he offers to us as his own.
With this in mind Nietzsche thus begins his
radical critique
of reason by asking one simple question: what is
truth?
Our blind spots are exposed, others have
radical pieces
of truth to feast on, and Jesus comes and shows us stuff we wouldn't even have thought
of unless we asked and listened and engaged.
And the overarching
truth she uncovered through so much note taking in so many drab and cheerless settings is that white heterosexual males — the oppressive villains
of radical secularist orthodoxy — are victims too.
Just as in Bultmann's analysis the questions
of belief and
truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way
of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues
of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.
Functional ultimacy can also be interpreted as a more
radical extension
of Kierkegaard's principle
of truth as subjectivity to areas beyond the ethicoreligious sphere.
Barth reflected a
radical confidence that he could find in the Bible the unvarnished
truth about the nature
of God and any other
truth worth knowing.
Such refusal and such incapacity are the measure
of the sinfulness
of man — and the Hebrew prophets, who taught the
truth about sacrifice, at the same time saw the
radical sin in men which prevented their doing that which alone would «please God» and result in right relationships with Him.
The
truth is that we are undergoing a
radical change
of climate.
Once the critical mass has moved from absolute certainty vs.
radical scepticism to the possibility
of knowing objective
truth with high degree
of probability through subjective trial and error methodology we will once again begin to experience a «Golden Age»
of learning.
«7 This distinction between an esoteric form
of truth accessible to all, and an esoteric form reserved for philosophers was again contested by the
radical theologians
of the time.
Just as in Bultmann's analysis the question
of belief and
truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way
of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues
of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.32
Some
of the former are beginning to realize that Francis does not have the ability to alter divine
truth to accommodate fashionable notions about sex and gender — while many conservatives have convinced themselves that Francis is a dangerous
radical, despite clear evidence to the contrary.
Empirical, speculative, and rationalistic process thinkers differ, we suspect, on the nature
of this dimension
of experience, the proper ways
of analyzing it, and in their conclusions concerning what can be accomplished by referring to this level
of experience While all turn to this depth dimension
of life, it is not clear that the «deep empiricism»
of the rationalists, which yields universal and necessary
truths, is the same as that form
of «
radical empiricism» whose adherents focus on the particular and the contingent.
Whereas almost all earlier philosophers had assumed that the ground
of truth lay outside themselves, and so had believed philosophy to be the art
of making their concepts and words conform to the many ways in which being bore witness to itself, Descartes» method gave priority to a moment
of radical doubt about everything outside the self.
The good news
of Jesus is not a mathematical equation, it is a
radical newness
of life busting at the seems with the love and grace and
truth of God.
A drug war
Truth and Reconciliation Commission along the lines
of post-apartheid South Africa is a
radical idea proposed by the Green Party.
A major voice in the New Iranian cinema, Asghar Farhadi is less
radical than Antonioni: we do find, eventually, what happened to Elly — but what remains mysterious is the
truth «about» Elly, as we are left with the sad feeling
of a life defined by repression and submission.
In
truth, however, this phenomenon was uneven, and was more pronounced in Germany and Anglophone nations than in countries such as Italy (where most
of their post-1970 films were made), Portugal and the Spanish - speaking world, in which the Straubs found more steadfast support for their
radical work.
For an avatar
of our current cultural appetite for accountability,
truth - telling and
radical moral reckoning, we couldn't possibly do better than Mildred Hayes, a grieving mother seeking justice and closure in «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»
Radical truth telling, accompanied by an ethos
of mutual responsibility known as «Brother's Keeper,» lies at the core
of Hyde's vision
of character development.
Unable to separate
truth from fiction, public outrage is growing over actions governments around the world are being falsely accused
of taking in the global war on terror.Still struggling with trauma from her previous mission, Kate Adams is pressed back into CIA service to infiltrate a
radical anti-government group that may have ties to The Executive.
The Studio Museum in Harlem believes that the
radical voices
of artists telling the
truths of the moment are essential to democracy.
Blurring the boundary between art and life,
truth and fiction, the Danish artist's work continues a
radical»60s inspired critique
of society's relation to the predominance
of the image in the present.
He talked
of the museum as a relative (not an absolute)
truth, and contextualized this
radical museum within a similarly dynamic concept
of art history.
Campbell and Epstein started crowing to the press about how the endowment had gone up in value, how they hadn't taken any big risks, and how they had balanced the budget — when the
truth of the matter was, in the attorney general's words, that «without
radical changes, insolvency had become inevitable.»
This past Thursday, at the business conference Opportunity Green, one panel entitled Next Generation Carbon Mapping:
Radical Transparency and
Truth in Advertising captured the attention
of the standing room only audience at
Every strategy was designed for the purpose
of keeping
truth seekers from finding out how flawed the data is on climate change and global warming — and from discovering just how far these
radical green activists will go to push their political agenda.
No doubt you've heard that one before: From Natural Capitalism to Confessions
of a
Radical Industrialist to The
Truth about Green Business, the idea that waste (or «non-product») doesn't just represent an environmental evil, but also a squandering
of financial resources.