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Principles

Life & work : (spine title)

Dalio, Ray 1949- (author.).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 1501124021
ISBN: 9781501124020
Physical Description: xviii, 567 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
print
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-554) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- 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.