Principles Life & work
Book - 2017
Dalio "shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business--and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals"--Amazon.com.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Autobiographies
- Published
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New York :
Simon and Schuster
2017.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
- Physical Description
- xviii, 567 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [553]-554) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781501124020
- Part I. Where I'm coming from
- My all to adventure: 1949-1967
- Crossing the threshold: 1967-1979
- My abyss: 1979-1982
- My road of trials: 1983-1994
- The ultimate boon: 1995-2010
- Returning the boon: 2011-2015
- My last year and my greatest challenge: 2016-2017
- Looking back from a higher level
- Part II. Life principles
- Embrace reality and deal with it
- Use the 5-step process to get what you want out of life
- Be radically open-minded
- Understand that people are wired very differently
- Learn how to make decisions effectively
- Life principles: putting it all together
- Summary and table of life principles
- Part III. Work principles
- Summary and table of work principles
- To get the culture right...
- Trust in radical truth and radical transparency
- Cultivate meaningful work and meaningful relationships
- Create a culture in which it is okay to make mistakes and unacceptable not to learn from them
- Get and stay in sync
- Believability weight your decision making
- Recognize how to get beyond disagreements
- To get the people right...
- Remember that the WHO is more important than the WHAT
- Hire right, because the penalties for hiring wrong are huge
- Constantly train, test, evaluate, and sort people
- To build an evolve your machine...
- Manage as someone operating a machine to achieve a goal
- Perceive and don't tolerate problems
- Diagnose problems to get at their roots
- Design improvements to your machine to get around your problems
- Do what you set out to do
- Use tools and protocols to shape how work is done
- And for heaven's sake, don't overlook governance!
- Work principles: putting it all together
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Tools and protocols for Bridgewater's idea meritocracy.