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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

"Radical Candor is about caring personally and challenging directly simultaneously so you can be kickass at work without losing your humanity."

2019

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How to Question Questionable Beliefs

Something curious happens with racially prejudiced beliefs. Your life experiences won’t automatically challenge them. For example, if you…

Oct 29

Oct 29

How Leaders Can Prevent Prejudice From Ruining Respect

Prejudice, unlike bias, is a conscious belief, usually incorporating an unfair and inaccurate stereotype. People of one race are inferior…

Oct 15

How Leaders Can Prevent Prejudice From Ruining Respect

Oct 15

A Radical Idea of Love and Joy

Creating a kick-ass work environment where you can take a step in the direction of your dreams and love the people around you can be…

Oct 1

Oct 1

Who Gets Away With Bloviating BS and Why?

Perhaps you’ve noticed that some people can get away with saying things that aren’t backed up by facts or are outright false while others…

Sep 26

Who Gets Away With Bloviating BS and Why?

Sep 26

Designing Fair Compensation Systems

In 2021, Latina women were paid 54 cents for every dollar paid to White men, and Black women 64 cents, Native American women just 51 cents…

Sep 11

Sep 11

How Leaders Can Prevent Prejudice From Ruining Respect

Prejudice, unlike bias, is a conscious belief, usually incorporating an unfair and inaccurate stereotype. People of one race are inferior…

Sep 7

How Leaders Can Prevent Prejudice From Ruining Respect

Sep 7

How to Become Conscious of What’s Unconscious

“It is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own. Questioning what…

Aug 12

How to Become Conscious of What’s Unconscious

Aug 12

5 Ways to Intervene When You Observe Bullying at Work

The nature of bullying is to isolate the target, making them more vulnerable. The minute an upstander intervenes, showing solidarity, the…

Jul 30

5 Ways to Intervene When You Observe Bullying at Work

Jul 30

4 Realizations that Changed the Way I Work

I’ve never met anyone who says, “Oh, yeah, what I really want to do is to work in a 1984 style where everybody’s marching in a lockstep…

Jul 22

4 Realizations that Changed the Way I Work

Jul 22

Who are you going to promote — the ‘strong leader’ or the ‘real mother hen’?

While advising a CEO on gender equity, I sat in on discussion with his team about whom should receive a promotion. I noticed that they…

Jul 15

Jul 15

Kim Scott

Kim Scott

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Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor & Radical Respect and co-founder of Radical Candor which helps teams put the ideas from the book into practice.

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