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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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Kim Scott

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…

13h ago

How Leaders Can Prevent Prejudice From Ruining Respect

13h ago

Kim Scott

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

Kim Scott

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

Kim Scott

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

Kim Scott

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

‘Joy is an Act of Resistance’

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

Jul 9

‘Joy is an Act of Resistance’

Jul 9

Kim Scott

The Word Police: Have We Become too Sensitive?

Once, I worked with a couple of people who objected to what they called the “word police” on the theory that they didn’t mean any harm and…

Jul 1

The Word Police: Have We Become too Sensitive?

Jul 1

Kim Scott

The Invaluable Advice I Received Early In My Career

A mentor gave me some invaluable advice early in my career. Asking for help, he explained, is very different from asking for a handout.

Jun 29

The Invaluable Advice I Received Early In My Career

Jun 29

Kim Scott

Speaking Truth to Power: The Cost-Benefit Analysis

I have mentored countless people frustrated by injustice in their workplace — by the lack of real efforts to recruit more diverse…

Jun 25

Speaking Truth to Power: The Cost-Benefit Analysis

Jun 25

Kim Scott

Bottoms Up Checks & Balances

Creating Accountability in the Workplace

Jun 24

Bottoms Up Checks & Balances

Jun 24

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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