About the author
Ray Dalio is an American investor who founded Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds. His public writing explains the decision systems, organisational practices, economic models, and historical patterns he developed during that career.
Principles: Life and Work combines memoir with explicit rules for learning from error and managing an organisation. Later books apply Dalio's framework to debt crises and long cycles of political and economic power.
Where to start
Start with Principles: Life and Work for Dalio's autobiography and management system; read it as a founder's model whose practices should be judged against the needs of another organisation.
