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The book can be cut to one-tenth in volume without losing much detail.
The gist of the book is about how the author sees his organizstion as a machine with people as its parts. The principles given in this regard are blueprints without much delving into reasoning. Mostly useful as a code of conduct and practice for BridgeWater people.
I expected much more from this book.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful
This book was awesome. Great to hear and listen to someone that has had great financial success talk about principles. I would love to be in Ray Dalio inner circle. So much wisdom and knowledge that you can learn from. I'm developing my own principles now while also noting down Rays. Awesome book and many thanks for writing this gem.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful
If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?
A small business growing into a medium size business may appreciate the exhausting list of principles.
Would you ever listen to anything by Ray Dalio again?
If he releases his investing principles, as promised, I'd be very interested. Most buyers would be shocked to hear that this 'investing great' does not write much about investing in this very long book.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Ray Dalio narrates half the book but a backup narrator is left to churn through a lot of the repetitive sounding chapters.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointing because Ray Dalio has presented his organisational principles and held back on his investing strategies. He posits that to emulate his investing success, others should consider following his work principles. This is most likely an illusion of causality. It is more likely a coincidence that he has been wildly successful in picking market moves as well as instituted a certain type of management, not because of it.
Any additional comments?
Ray Dalio trumpets radical transparency and openness to feedback which is why i don't feel insubordinate in labelling his manuscript a misguided and futile contribution. Ray, you're a legend because of your investing, not your management. Just read your mixed Glassdoor reviews.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Would you try another book written by Ray Dalio or narrated by Ray Dalio and Jeremy Bobb ?
Maybe if it was about his trading
You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?
The five steps in achieving success are good
Any additional comments?
Overall its just too complicated. There are five goals....or is it seven.....or is it ten....each of them has subset bits of info ie goal 1.1, with then further subset info ie goal 1.1a, then further ie goal 1.1a,1-24.
I ended up getting the kindle book so I could keep track of it all. That was just as complicated only now I could see the full extent of it.
For those who can approach life like an algorithmic trading plan, this book is for you; it's a kind of life algorithm, which, if you can implement it, guarantees success.
5 of 8 people found this review helpful
includes very valuable insights and principles that can help any growing organisation to help shaping it in an idea meritocratic way.
Amazing insight into a highly successful business man & company. Great examples of how to apply the learnings into any business. Recommended for any business order trying to achieve overall greatness
Can be shortened at least 10 times. Too much patting himself on the back. You might learn a thing or two but the length compared to what you might learn is not a good trade-off for your time. Ehh...
Just watch his TED talk, you’ll probably get as much. You’re better off reading something else
Plenty of wisdom and good advice. Will be even more helpful when digital tools become available.
Learn how to think systematically. A must for anyone pursing excellence in business or life.
Absolutely incredible. Thank you for taking to time to share you life and work principles. My business partners and I would love to meet you one day.
Having fewer reports (zero), than the author, this book - while very interesting, insightful and practical - comes across as directed towards folks way above my pay grade. CEOs and VPs in particular. Still, as a small cog in a very big wheel, I recommend it for both perspective on what good management looks like, and for straight-up honorable principles to live by.
46 of 50 people found this review helpful
Two stars - meh
three stars - good
four stars - worth a second read
five stars - life-changing - my top 50 of all time
Worth a second read because the ideas at the core of the book seem contrary to what has been my life experience.
I'd love to spend a couple of days at Bridgewater or extensively interview some longtime employees to find out if it works as the author suggests.
My experience has been that 'Idea Meritocracies' and 'Radical honesty' work great for those at the top, who's positions cannot be threatened because they deem what is valued and right.
I've also always been told that attempting to fit market movements to algorithms cannot predict the really important swings. This is because we cannot properly summarize all of the market conditions that existed historically, nor can we know all of the factors that effect markets currently because our information is incomplete. I should be able to tell if his approach works by comparing Bridgewater's performance to that of its peers, but I have not yet done this.
The author does make a telling comment early in the book, regarding the computational nature of reality. He states that if we knew we had a perfect description of the current state of the universe, we'd be able to predict what would happen next. This is by no means an established fact. Chaos theory, quantum mechanics and and Heisenberg would probably disagree.
I cannot decide if the 'Baseball Card' approach to personnel makes sense. Baseball stats are more objective that job performance or personality types based on standardized tests.
I'd love to believe that keeping stats on everyone would help predict future performance, but as Sabermetrics showed, which stats one calculates and how they are weighted have significant impact on outcomes.
I'd love to believe that his basic assumptions are correct, but I'm really ambivalent. This book raised many more questions than it answered.
If I check the facts and they seem to hold water, I will make changes to my life and thus this would qualify as a five-star book.
122 of 138 people found this review helpful
The Blueprint — 10 Lessons From Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
What makes this book a gold mine for me and like-minded people:
1. Understanding why a meritocratic environment works best for my personality has helped me shed imposter syndrome; mask off.
2. Ray defines a valid solution around a psychological dichotomy and process that stems to eliminate a ton of common misconceptions. Supportive ideologies around the power of numbers & group theory, associated with machine learning seem to be a great formula for creating an effective symbiotic ecosystem. If practiced by those who are open to change and constructive criticism.
3. The opening line made me want to get on plane to NYC, take a train over to CT, give Ray a high five, then head back to the concrete jungle to engage in shenanigans.
4. Machine learning (ai) can have a positive outcome as long as its used as supportive component for analytics and behavioral studies.
5. Ai, when done right, has the ability to yield some highly beneficial outcomes around structuring teams and making business decisions. At the same time, it can aid in studying your personal history, train of thought, and help predict what environments are good for personality.
6. It’s good to be open to constructive criticism.
7. Arguments should occur with the intention of arriving at new learnings, not to generate hatred or sense of detachment from the opposing party.
8. Some personalities just don’t work for the environment or culture that you are trying to creates. And in certain cases YOU actually create the high level of toxicity that destroys the environment that you are attempting to create.
9. The goal of learning is to grow and one day help another elevate themselves by sharing your learnings in an intuitive manner.
10. Mistakes should be embraced in the same we celebrate blessings. For in a lost or failure, we have an opportunity to learn and increase our aptitude around problem solving for that specific issue.
Bonus: never give up and let your humility serve as the honey that will capture the hearts and minds of your counterparts.
17 of 19 people found this review helpful
I don't usually give up on a book, especially one being read to me during a long drive when the only other option is silence. But, geesh. Some of the lead up stories to what I thought was the meat forthcoming were interesting but all in all no meat delivered. At least nothing up to the point where I threw up the white hankie and hit the stop button. The advice was generic and lacked the, for instance, this is how you'd apply this. I do know that he knows all about the ins and outs of pork bellies and the crops they eat and weather patterns ad nauseam. And he mentioned many times how he rubbed elbows with the rich and famous. Got it - you're a big deal.
29 of 33 people found this review helpful
I am a fan of Ray Dalio, the legendary hedge-fund manager. This book has three sections: a bio of Ray, followed by his "life principles," followed then by his "work principles." I found his life story to be very interesting indeed. And his "life principles" were excellent, especially the notion of "radical transparency" and "radical openness" and honestly confronting ones problems. So far great. But I got really bogged down in the third section, his "work principles." This seemed more like a corporate human resources manual than anything one could use in life. Even if you were a CEO or department head of a several hundred person organization, his principles often seemed like cliches. So much depends on what people are charged to do, but he has very little of that. I wish he had spent more time on his investment philosophy. This is where is his genius lies. He is not Tony Robbins. But I did learn from this book to confront my own problems more honestly and directly.
29 of 34 people found this review helpful
This is a great book to listen to and I found myself drifting off quite a lot thinking how to apply any given section to my life/work. I'll have to go through it a few more times for sure.
12 of 14 people found this review helpful
if you're building a business or hold a management role in one or even if you're looking to improve your day-to-day life, I bet this book will serve you well.
11 of 13 people found this review helpful
Dalio uses empirical evidence and groundbreaking research to prove that such ideas and tools are truly effective. The process and journey in which Dalio and his team developed these principles is the greatest takeaway as it outlines the thought process and attitude required to design and implement your own principles in any environment.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Stuck it out for the 8 chapters on his life to get to the principles only to find they were trite advice I could get from instagram. "be brutally honest with yourself", "have a clear mental map", etc. Angry I wasted my time.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
I listened to the entire book to understand the context of the principles. However that led me to become easily bored by the constant repetition of the words "idea maritocracy" and "radical honesty". I would suggest skipping to the second portion of the book when the author explains the life and work principles.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Thank you Ray Dalio for writing this! Business and life guidance from someone well read and most definitely experiences..
15 of 16 people found this review helpful
I truly enjoyed this book and it was particularly beneficial being read by the author. Ray Dalio is a very successful person and it’s excellent for him to share, in full transparency, his Principles that shaped him and Bridgewater. This allows you to gain a very intimate insight on Rays compass north during all important and mundane decisions and can be used a guide for you as you develop your own principles.
Of course, this is the premise of the book that to achieve results it requires radical truth with radical transparency. Ray certainly delivers on this and I have begun to implement these within my career and life.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful
The author is incredibly eloquent and down to earth person. Normal language is being used to explain complexity of company organisation etc.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
This has to be there with the best book I have consumed in a very long time. So much so that I truly believe that any individual should listen to or read to add value and benefit their lives both personally and professionally. I could not switch it off!
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
The book feels a lot like a linear autobiography. It talks about major events from the author’s past, including successes and failures the author has learnt from.
In the beginning, the book sounded to have been structured well and the author’s writing style seemed quite analytical. The author’s voice is clear and composed throughout. I really liked it when the author states he doesn’t wish to impose his beliefs on the listener and that the advice he’ll be sharing may not benefit everyone.
The author frequently speaks about how has helped companies run more efficiently. Most times, however, I struggled to extract value from his explanations unless he gave some sort of evaluation in the end.
The author also speaks a lot about his company Bridgewater, its challenges and achievements as well as constantly evolving culture and management. To me it sounded the author was more interested in describing, explaining and at times praising his business instead of looking to provide knowledge to the listener in a direct and understandable way.
Four hours in, the book appeared to have become an autobiography of Ray Dalio’s business and career. I decided to return it because the more I listened to it, the less I felt it benefited me.
I wouldn’t recommend the book to everyone but if you are into investing, finance and business management, you may really like the book.
10 of 14 people found this review helpful
Not really a general self-help book, but has value if interested in the company.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
1.3 Don't let the fears of what others think of you stand in your way.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
This book contained some really useful insights and offered a glimpse of how the world of financial services will someday look. That said, it was extremely repetitive and dragged on for about 9 hours longer than it needed to.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful
anyone who runs or is planning on running a company should read/ listen to this book. I just wish i had 4 years ago when i started my own company. I think it would have saved me a lot of painful mistakes. no-one the less, with my own trial and error approach, and now implementing some of the lessons in this book, we are finally on track. well worth sticking with this until the end. great read.
i was quite disheartened not finishing this book however i gave it many attempts but could not get captivated buy it. i went back time and time again but each time i drifted off so gave up after 5 hours.