Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity (Revised, Updated)
by Kim Scott
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* New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller multiple years running
* Translated into 20 languages, with more than half a million copies sold worldwide
* A Hudson and Indigo Best Book of the Year
* Recommended by Shona Brown, Rachel Hollis, Jeff Kinney, Daniel Pink, Sheryl Sandberg, and Gretchen Rubin
Radical Candor has been embraced around the world by leaders of every stripe at companies of all sizes. Now a cultural touchstone, the concept has come to be applied to a wide range of human relationships.
The idea is simple: You don't have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candor—avoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathy—you can be kind and clear at the same time.
Kim Scott was a highly successful leader at Google before decamping to Apple, where she developed and taught a management class. Since the original publication of Radical Candor in 2017, Scott has earned international fame with her vital approach to effective leadership and co-founded the Radical Candor executive education company, which helps companies put the book's philosophy into practice.
Radical Candor is about caring personally and challenging directly, about soliciting criticism to improve your leadership and also providing guidance that helps others grow. It focuses on praise but doesn't shy away from criticism—to help you love your work and the people you work with.
Radically Candid relationships with team members enable bosses to fulfill their three core responsibilities:
1. Create a culture of Compassionate Candor
2. Build a cohesive team
3. Achieve results collaboratively
Required reading for the most successful organizations, Radical Candor has raised the bar for management practices worldwide.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9781250235374
EAN:
1250235375
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
336
Authors:
Kim Scott
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
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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.
