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About the Author

Kim Scott is the author of the\xa0New York Times\xa0and\xa0Wall Street Journal\xa0bestseller\xa0Radical Candor:\xa0Be a Kickass Boss without Losing your Humanity\xa0and the co-founder of Radical Candor LLC. Kim has been a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and several other tech companies.

Previously, Kim led AdSense, YouTube, and Doubleclick Online Sales and Operations at Google. Known for her ability to generate billions of dollars in revenue from millions of small customers while keeping her team happy and margins high, her unofficial title was High Priestess of the Long Tail. After Google, Kim joined Apple to develop and teach a leadership seminar.

Additionally, she was the co-founder and CEO of Juice Software, a collaboration start-up, and led business development at Delta Three and Capital Thinking. Earlier in her career, she worked as a senior policy advisor at the FCC, managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo, started a
diamond cutting factory in Moscow, and was an analyst on the Soviet Companies Fund. Kim received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BA from Princeton University. She is the author of three novels; she and her husband Andy Scott are parents of twins and live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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About the Book

The idea is simple: You don\u2019t have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candor\u2015avoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathy\u2015you 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\u2019s 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\u2019t shy away from criticism\u2015to 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:

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1. Create a culture of Compassionate Candor
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2. Build a cohesive team
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3. Achieve results collaboratively
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Required reading for the most successful organizations, Radical Candor has raised the bar for management practices worldwide.

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Watch Kim\u2019s video \u2018be a kickass boss without losing your humanity\u2019 here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj9GLeNCgm4

BIG IDEA 1 (6:14) \u2013 Care personally and challenge directly.

Caring personally is fundamentally about giving a damn. It is about sharing yourself and allowing others to do the same by creating an environment where everyone can build true relationships. It\u2019s about truly caring about your team as people \u2013 not just about how good they are in their job.

Create space for conversations about what your team members want to do with their careers, even if people may not want to stay in your team or your organisation. The first important step to caring personally is to decide that it is your job to make your team successful.

Caring personally and challenging directly are what make up the radical candor. Challenging directly is telling people what\u2019s working and what\u2019s not. Whether you are giving feedback or guidance, you can\u2019t effectively care personally without challenging directly. And you can\u2019t effectively challenge directly without caring personally.

BIG IDEA 2 (8:54) \u2013 Choose radical candor.

The radical candor model in the book has two axis; at the top of the vertical axis you\u2019ve got caring personally and bottom is \u2018you don\u2019t give a damn\u2019 while on the horizontal axis right hand side is challenge directly and on the left is silence.

If you care personally but don\u2019t challenge directly, you display ruinous empathy. If you stay silent and don\u2019t care personally, you act with manipulative insincerity (which usually involves a lot of back stabbing).

If you have no care but you do challenge directly, you act with obnoxious aggression.\xa0 Interestingly many people rather work with an obnoxious asshole than someone who just says nice things all the time as at least you know where you stand with an obnoxious asshole!

When you care personally and challenge directly, this is radical candor.

BIG IDEA 3 (12:39) \u2013 You\u2019ve got to get to give.

You can\u2019t just give out radical candor without being open to receiving it.

Team leaders should be open to receiving radically candid feedback from their teams to be a role model in how to receive such feedback and have these conversations. Therefore you may need to encourage your team to practice it with you in a less public setting (eg in your one on one meetings) until people can feel safe to do so in a group environment.

Music By:\xa0Gotta Love \u2013 Instrumental Version Song by Yulee

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