每日原则: 要考虑你寻找的人应具备什么样的价值观、能力和技艺（按此顺序）

价值观是驱动行为的深层信仰，决定着人际相处。人们会为价值观而斗争，很可能是与那些价值观不同的人斗争。能力体现在思考方式和行为方式上。一些人是了不起的学习者、问题的快速处理者，另一些人拥有从更高层次看问题的能力。有些人更关注细节，而另一些人善于创新思维、逻辑思维或者心思缜密。技能是可以习得的工具，例如能讲外语或写计算机代码。尽管价值观和能力不会有太大改变，多数技能可以在有限时间内学会（例如，学习熟练使用软件），且其价值常会改变（今天最受欢迎的程序语言很可能几年后就过时了）。

重要的是，要知道综合哪些素质对应哪些岗位，更明确地讲，要知道你能与其建立成功交往的那些人应具备哪些价值观和能力。在挑选准备长期交往的人时，价值观最为重要，能力其次，技能是最后要考虑的。然而多数人犯的错误是，挑人时先看技术和能力，却忽略价值观。我们的识人标准最重要的就是我所说的三个“C”：品格（character）、常识（common sense）、创造力（creativity）。

如果你的员工充满团队精神和使命感，并且能力出众，你的机构就会是卓越的。有些人看重使命感和团队意识，而另一些人不太看重。在桥水，我们秉持的主要共同价值观是从事有意义的工作，发展有意义的人际交往，做到极度求真和极度透明，愿意以开放的心态探索严酷的现实（包括正视自身缺点），有主人翁精神，敢于追求卓越，愿意做困难但有益的事，因此，我们寻找的是真正想拥有这一切的英才。

Values are the deep-seated beliefs that motivate behaviors and determine people’s compatibilities with each other. People will fight for their values, and they are likely to fight with people who don’t share them. Abilities are ways of thinking and behaving. Some people are great learners and fast processors; others possess the ability to see things at a higher level. Some focus more on the particulars; still others think creatively or logically or with supreme organization. Skills are learned tools, such as being able to speak a foreign language or write computer code. While values and abilities are unlikely to change much, most skills can be acquired in a limited amount of time (e.g., software proficiency can be learned) and often change in worth (today’s most in-demand programming language is likely to be obsolete in a few years).

It is important for you to know what mix of qualities is important to fit each role and, more broadly, what values and abilities are required in people with whom you can have successful relationships. In picking people for long-term relationships, values are most important, abilities come next, and skills are the least important. Yet most people make the mistake of choosing skills and abilities first and overlooking values. We value people most who have what I call the three C’s: character, common sense, and creativity.

If your people are bound by a sense of community and mission and they are capable, you will have an extraordinary organization. Some people will value the mission and community and others won’t. Since at Bridgewater the key shared values that maintain our culture are meaningful work and meaningful relationships, radical truth and radical transparency, an open-minded willingness to explore harsh realities including one’s own weaknesses, a sense of ownership, a drive for excellence, and the willingness to do the good but difficult things, we look for highly capable people who deeply want all of those things.

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