Half memoir, half operating manual from the founder of Bridgewater, built around radical transparency and an idea-meritocracy where arguments are settled by weighted believability rather than seniority.
The autobiography is the better half, particularly the part where he gets a major call catastrophically wrong in public and has to rebuild.
Where I part company is the transferability. Recording every meeting and rating people live works in one firm with an unusual founder and a specific selection effect. Most organisations adopting the vocabulary get the bluntness without the safety that made it survivable.
Read April 2018.