Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity (Revised, Updated): Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

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Super fast delivery and an unbeatable price. Very happy with the purchase — will definitely buy again!

I’m definitely going to pull several notes from this book and apply it to how I conduct myself as a leader. I honestly love this book enough to buy her other book on leadership. (in other words, I’m coming back for more.)

Scott’s book is thought provoking and I’m interested to try several of her tips. I’d also be interested to hear from others how effective (or ineffective/not applicable) they’ve found some of her recommendations. A lot of what she covers is good groundwork and solid reminders and I can imagine myself rereading it in the future as a check-in/check back to gauge how I think I’m doing.

I’m about halfway through reading it and I think I’m done. It’s like the author gathered every potential piece of advice that could be given to leaders and crammed it into the book, rather than focusing on what you thought you came to read about - “Radical Candor”.It starts off talking about candor, but then the chapters drag on. Every time I hit something that I think will be useful, the author only dwells on it for a few sentences before moving on, so I don’t get much out of it. I watched an interview once where someone claimed this book changed their life, but to me it’s simply telling me all the things I should get better at as a manager, instead of helping me really hone my skills in the one area the book claims to own - candor.There are even paragraphs where she starts to talk about something and never finishes the idea. For example, in Chapter 6 “Guidance”, she mentions Fred Kofman and the importance of reflecting your core values in how you work. Then the rest of the paragraph talks about objective vs subjective reality, but never brings using your core values back into the conversation. By the next paragraph we’ve moved onto something new. Every paragraph is a few short sentences on the topic before moving onto the next. It’s annoying, to be honest.

Loved the information presented to you in the book, although some of the story telling got long but I could be out of the 'norm' for understanding where the information was coming from. I'm taking more from the book and implementing it into my style right away.

If you want to (or have to) lead others, knowing when and how to give proper, effective feedback can go a long way!

It was humbling. I saw alot of bad and some good in my leadership style. I thought i was perfect. Lol.... I am not perfect at all. Now the self-work begins.

Excellent book! I was fortunate to hear her talk on the book and bring further context to Radical Candor! Love how she helps you to build up your skills to seek feedback and really work towards being kind, not nice.

is an essential read for anyone looking to improve their leadership skills.

Great book and wonderful insights to becoming a better leader. Be aware the font size of the book is extremely small and does create eye strain. Reading glasses are required to read this book even if you don' use reading glasses regularly.

The author makes a vain attempt to appeal to authority by constantly reminding you she worked for Steve Job, Larry Page, and Sheryl Sandberg. She completely undermines her own book by quoting Jack Dorsey “If you have to use someone else’s name or authority to get your point across, there is little merit to the point.” Completely missed the forest for the trees.All of her anecdotes from her personal experience as a manager paint her as a bad boss/leader whose employees only thrive after they are no longer working for her. She seems to be the prototypical Silicon Valley executive, constantly failing up.There are some good pieces of advice on gaining trust and empowering employees but this book could be 70% shorter if she cut out all her self aggrandizing and name dropping. This book comes across as nothing more than a vanity project to let everyone know how important the author is by hiding behind leadership advice.

I lost track how of how often the author makes sure readers know just how often she worked with Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Sheryl Sandberg, or other Silicon Valley royalty. It's gross and pointless for the rest of us ordinary people who aren't basking in their glow. Who cares about how confident Dick Costolo seemed when he was doing management by walking around Twitter?The book is fully written from the point of view that Google or Facebook are the model for workplace values, processes, and behaviors. I think even just a few years since its publication, a lot of these things in 2024 feel really hollow and disingenuous. Frankly there's a lot of dismissal here of the real experiences of women and others not in the majority at these companies that to me undermines even the common sense advice here. A famous CEO is praised for his bold ability to stop saying "you guys" quite so often as he once did to groups that include women. Bless.The book is full of a lot of pointless anecdotes. A person once asked for feedback, and the other person couldn't think of anything...but then he did! That is nearly verbatim one of the anecdotes here, it actually has no specifics or substance. Another anecdote is about someone correcting the behavior of her dog at a street corner. Other stories about people drunkenly vomiting on couches at Google just seem very sad.Everything after chapter 3 frankly loses the plot of "Radical candor" entirely. There are long sections talking about setting up idea-vetting committees, or how they created a pre-meeting meeting at Google, or what software they used to track work (surprise: it was Google Docs!), or pure filler text about creating meeting agendas and decision-making rubrics. I literally had forgotten what the book was actually meant to be about by this point. In fact by the final sentences she's writing about how "creating a self-replicating culture" in the China office was "one of the most magical moments of my career." HER career, you see, is what this book is actually about.

As part of a work book club, I delved into Kim Malone Scott’s fresh perspective on delivering criticism. Our team is keen on embracing her philosophy. My sole critique? The book’s repetition could have been trimmed for greater impact.

Starting at this new company as a boss hasn't been easy. My boss literally said there is a lot of tenure people here and so a lot of cliques and caddiness. Welcome to the team.Doesn't sound like a great place to work. The first month was horrible. Strangely enough, my same boss who recognized the attitude problem recommended me this book. I couldn't put it down. These suggestions work. Even in a kitchen-like environment. In one month of working towards a radically candid environment I changed approval rating by 15%. It can work if you do the work!

The book is worth reading but its not a page turner, the stories are vague , uneventful and yet I still question if some actually occurred or were manifested for the book.The book does well at showcasing a number of tools that managers should incorporate if they havent already. Its worth reading for that and Thats where Scott shines but it should be 1/2 the size.As far as “radical candor” its largely based on the personal relationship you have with employee. Even in Scotts stories you can find multiple examples where 2 people offer similar criticism but 1 is remembered as a bully and another as radically candid. This depends on 1) her relationship with the person at the time. 2) the outcome 3) her bias in particular for womenThe book is from 2019 so it isn’t too preachy about Social Justice . Its definitely there. Her experience is silicon valley and many of the professionals are under 30 so you get a hefty dose of distorted reality but I couldn’t finish the audio excerpt of her next book Getting Shit done quickly. It was a woman lamenting her place as a white skinned victimizer.

I liked the main point of the book (radical candor) it seems very practical. I wish I had read the book when I was running a team. In retrospect, I learned many things that I was doing wrong, my bosses were doing wrong, and my team. I always thought I'm not a good people's manager but now I think that I just didn't get the coaching or tools I needed to be a good manager. This book definitely gave me some valuable resources that I might use in the future.I recommend d the book to any manager no matter their level of experience.

This was an odd one, in part because it wasn't a book I chose. Our team has a book club at work and the Radical Candor was the first book we covered, in part because our manager is looking for us to provide each other with more radical candor.So first: this book is written for managers, and I am not a manager. (I don't foresee wanting to be a manager any time soon.) If you are a manager, it's probably a better fit.Second, well, there's a lot of Silicon Valley privilege dripping from this book. At one point, Kim talks about how letting poor performers go can be a blessing for both the company and poor performer because the fired employee can go do something like starting that coffee shop they always wanted.Maybe on a West Coast IT severance package (assuming they move somewhere else) but most people on the East Coast and all points in between lose a job and immediately have to go find another job.Kim also talks about how things like minority status or being female might make radical candor more complicated, but doesn't actually talk about what to do about them. Frankly, I don't think she knows.So yes, problematic book from multiple angles.At the same time, this book gave me some tips and tools that I need. For example, Kim puts a lot of emphasis on giving praise, which I don't do enough. One of the highlights of my year so far was an unexpected piece of praise from my manager for a wiki I'm putting together. I'm trying to pay that forward to the folks I work with, because we all should hear about the things we're doing right at least as often as we hear about the things we're doing wrong.The other thing that Radical Candor provides is a framework for structuring large conversations. When you have a business question where you know gaining consensus is going to be an issue, you can separate the "debate" meeting from the "decide" meeting, for example, to ensure that everyone gets a chance to have their say and at the same time there isn't pressure to make a decision right now.I don't think that Kim Scott provided enough direct advice on how to structure a piece of criticism. I think that Crucial Conversations does a much better job in that sense. But I do think that this book gives better examples of why constantly providing just-in-time feedback can help a team move from a place where crucial conversations are necessary to a place where everyone is communicating clearly enough that high-stakes behavior discussions are fewer and far between.In summary, this is not a book I'd say will have a permanent place on my bookshelf like Crucial Conversations does, but it's helpful and adds some tools to my toolbox that I didn't have before.

I first heard about "Radical Candor" during my government agency's annual training conference, a conference that included a workshop based upon "Radical Candor" led by our HR director. While I hadn't heard of the book, I fell in love with the ideas behind it and upon my return home set out to pick up the book for myself. "Radical Candor" has easily become one of my favorite books of the past year, a terrific option for those who are challenged by difficult conversations and who want to grow in leadership.While "Radical Candor" is likely most applicable to those in management or leadership positions, I've found the book really has been of tremendous benefit in my personal life. Within weeks of reading the book, I found myself in a challenging situation dealing with a healthcare provider and took much of what I learned from the book to resolve the situation positively and to work through a potentially negative situation. I displayed a side of myself I didn't really know and was rather awestruck by the positive results.Since reading the book, I've actually been promoted into a supervisory position and am now seeing the ways in which the book complements my existing leadership skills and management style. Truly, "Radical Candor" remains one of my favorite books from the past year and I've seen positive growth both personally and professionally resulting from author Kim Scott's intelligent, informed and sensitively written guidance.