Writing style
Direct · Essayistic · Technical
Apple BooksPrinciples
Business and economics
- First published
- 2017
- Print length
- 592 pagesSimon & Schuster, 2017
Description
Ray Dalio sets out the principles he developed while leading Bridgewater Associates, presenting them as tools for making decisions in both personal and professional life. At the center is a five-step process for identifying goals, recognizing the problems that obstruct them, diagnosing causes, designing solutions, and carrying those solutions through. Dalio urges readers to treat life and work as systems whose results can be observed, tested, and improved, much like a machine that can be fine-tuned. The method favors explicit rules over vague intention and repeated correction over improvisation. Part leadership philosophy and part operating manual, the book asks how individuals and organizations can turn experience into dependable processes for pursuing difficult goals.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Measured
Tone
Cerebral · Earnest · Reflective
Structure
Argumentative · Reference
Focus
Argument · Ideas · Information
Emotional intensity
2 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 3 / 5
- Ideas
- 4 / 5
- Structure
- 4 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 2 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781501124020
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