Principles_Life and Work-Simon & Schuster

Cover
Dedication
Introduction
Part I: Where I’m Coming From
	1 My Call to Adventure: 1949–1967
	2 Crossing the Threshold: 1967–1979
	3 My Abyss: 1979–1982
	4 My Road of Trials: 1983–1994
	5 The Ultimate Boon: 1995–2010
	6 Returning the Boon: 2011–2015
	7 My Last Year and My Greatest Challenge: 2016–2017
	8 Looking Back from a Higher Level
Part II: Life Principles
	1 Embrace Reality and Deal with It
	2 Use the 5-Step Process to Get What You Want Out of Life
	3 Be Radically Open-Minded
	4 Understand That People Are Wired Very Differently
	5 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 . . .
	1 Trust in Radical Truth and Radical Transparency
	2 Cultivate Meaningful Work and Meaningful Relationships
	3 Create a Culture in Which It Is Okay to Make Mistakes and Unacceptable Not to Learn from Them
	4 Get and Stay in Sync
	5 Believability Weight Your Decision Making
	6 Recognize How to Get Beyond Disagreements
	To Get the People Right . . .
	7 Remember That the WHO Is More Important than the WHAT
	8 Hire Right, Because the Penalties for Hiring Wrong Are Huge
	9 Constantly Train, Test, Evaluate, and Sort People
	To Build and Evolve Your Machine . . .
	10 Manage as Someone Operating a Machine to Achieve a Goal
	11 Perceive and Don’t Tolerate Problems
	12 Diagnose Problems to Get at Their Root Causes
	13 Design Improvements to Your Machine to Get Around Your Problems
	14 Do What You Set Out to Do
	15 Use Tools and Protocols to Shape How Work Is Done
	16 And for Heaven’s Sake, Don’t Overlook Governance!
Work Principles: Putting It All Together
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Conclusion
Appendix: Tools and Protocols for Bridgewater’s Idea Meritocracy
Bibliography
Index
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