If you think your workplace is tough, try the following summary of business principles written by Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates. Here's a taste:
"[W]hen a pack of hyenas takes down a young wildebeest, is that good or evil? At face value, that might not be 'good' because it seems cruel, and the poor wildebeest suffers and dies. Some people might even say that the hyenas are evil. Yet this type of apparently 'cruel' behaviour exists throughout the animal kingdom...
“Like death itself, it is integral to the enormously complex and efficient system that has worked for as long as there has been life. It is good for both the hyenas who are operating in their self-interest and the interest of the greater system, including those of the wildebeest, because killing and eating the wildebeest fosters evolution (i.e., the natural process of improvement). In fact, if you changed anything about the way that dynamic works, the overall outcome would be worse.”
