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> His main interest, as he wrote in his best-selling autobiography-cum–self-help book, Principles: Life and Work, is to lead others toward “meaningful lives” an
by dwaltrip 3y ago
> His main interest, as he wrote in his best-selling autobiography-cum–self-help book, Principles: Life and Work, is to lead others toward “meaningful lives” and “meaningful relationships.”
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> Staffers were given iPads and directed to rank one another on a one-to-ten scale on their performance dozens of times per day in categories derived from Dalio’s Principles
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> The goal of all the data, Dalio would say, was to sort everyone at Bridgewater on a single scale.
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Truly they’ve stumbled on the heart of human connection and meaning.
- hinkley 3y agoIf it comes out that Dalio was secretly sleeping with five different people at the company, at the same time, let's just say that my response would be, "that tracks."
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- adamgordonbell 3y agoHis book had many insane ideas for running a company. I assume the power of PR is why it was well received.
- ethanbond 3y agoOr because Bridgewater is inarguably in the top 0.000001% of most successful commercial endeavors ever? A book being "well-received" doesn't generally mean "everyone should follow all of the ideas in here."
- adamgordonbell 3y agoYeah, that's true. He's clearly been successful and the biography parts of the book were interesting.
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