The Best Course of Action

When deciding on the collective path to take, it's valuable to get bright individuals of different opinions in the same room and have them reason it out.

Ray Dalio calls this idea meritocracy. Choose the best idea. Not one person's idea and not the majority's idea but the idea that endures through clashes of intellect.

It helps if you can analyze issues with a cool head and identify the value and costs of relevant consequences.