The Principle Advantage - by Charles Koch & Chase Koch (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

The Principle Advantage reveals the timeless ideas and proven strategies that turned Koch Industries into a global powerhouse--offering a practical blueprint for anyone who wants to create lasting value through principled leadership.

Ever wonder how Charles Koch built one of the world's largest private companies--and continually transformed for more than six decades? The Principle Advantage reveals the answer.

In this deeply practical and personal book, Charles Koch and his son Chase Koch share 41 of the proven principles that have powered Koch's 9,000-fold growth while transforming their lives and philanthropy.

These Principles of Human Progress--tested over 60 years of experimentation and continuous learning--show how you can turn failure into success, empower those around you to accomplish more than they thought possible and get results across every aspect of your life.

Drawing from their experiences, father and son illustrate how these proven principles have been discovered and applied to business, philanthropy and personal life.

Whatever your situation or path, The Principle Advantage provides a practical, principle-based framework for turning challenges into opportunities and purpose into progress.

About the Author

Charles Koch, Chairman and Co-CEO--By the time Charles graduated from high school, he had attended eight schools ("but only got kicked out of one"). Despite earning three engineering degrees from MIT, he claims he is "a lousy engineer" but excels at making mistakes--"lots and lots of them." By learning from those mistakes and implementing a principle-based framework, the company he leads has grown 9,000-fold since 1960. Utterly rejecting retirement, even at the age of ninety, Charles continues to push for a principle-based approach to life, business and society. His wife of fifty-plus years and their two children are on board with this passion, and his three grandchildren are well on their way.

Chase Koch, Executive Vice President of Origination and Partnerships--As a child, Chase was an average student who slept through his father's Sunday afternoon philosophy lessons. He is the only Koch executive to ever fire himself from a role as president of a Koch company. But after discovering his strengths as a builder rather than an operator, he founded Koch Disruptive Technologies to invest in companies that can help Koch transform. KDT gave rise to "Koch Labs"--an application of the Republic of Science principle--accelerating the company's transformations. His role has expanded to include building partnerships that will help Koch succeed well into the future. While attending Texas A&M, Chase discovered the power of music to unite people. Today, his North Star is uniting and empowering people to create disruptive solutions.