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The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

162. Kim Scott — Radical Candor: How to Be a Kickass Boss [Encore Edition]

The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

Michael Mogill

Business, Management, Entrepreneurship, Marketing

5.0539 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Kim Scott has quite the resume. After getting her BA at Princeton and her MBA from Harvard, she led teams at both Apple and Google, and she has coached the CEOs of some of the top companies in the world, including Dropbox and Twitter. In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Kim shares the groundbreaking conclusions that led to her best-selling book Radical Candor — and tells you what you need to know to become a kickass boss. Buckle up for a revolutionary conversation that tackles the questions: Why should every CEO get their whole company to critique them? What radical candor did Sheryl Sandberg drop on Kim Scott after a presentation at Google? Why do leaders need to get comfortable with challenging directly? How can you make someone feel good about being fired? Links & Resources Episode Shownotes Radical Candor by Kim Scott American Idol Sheryl Sandberg Sergey Brin Eric Schmidt Ed Catmull Francoise Brower Russ Laraway Spirulina Christa Quarles OpenTable Jason Rosoff Situation-Behavior-Impact Feedback Tool Fred Kofman

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0:00.0

As I walked out of the room, I walked past Cheryl, my boss, Cheryl Sandberg.

0:07.0

And I'm expecting sort of a high five or a pat on the back.

0:12.0

That's Kim Scott, New York Times best-selling author of Radical Cander.

0:16.8

She stopped. She looked right at me and she said, when you say, um, every third word, it makes you sound stupid.

0:31.5

I'm Michael Logel, founder and CEO of Crisp, the nation's number one law from growth company.

0:36.3

I've built my business through practice, not theory. Crisp started with just $500 to my name and has grown to over eight

0:42.3

figures in revenue over the last few years, earning a spot on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing

0:47.2

private companies in America. Our approach has been to take everything we've learned about generating

0:51.5

massive growth within our own organization and help the country's most ambitious and committed law firm owners do the same for theirs. In each

0:58.1

episode of this podcast, I sit down with innovative market leaders from the legal industry and beyond

1:02.5

to learn from those who thrive in the face of adversity, challenge the status quo, and define

1:07.4

what it means to be a true game changer. Today, we're revisiting one of our most popular episodes from the podcast

1:13.4

where I sat down with renowned leadership expert Kim Scott.

1:16.5

We discussed how to be a kick-ass boss without losing your humanity,

1:20.1

why obnoxious aggression can be more effective than ruinous empathy,

1:23.2

and how leaders can create bullshit-free zones where people love working together.

1:28.0

Medical candor doesn't mean you'll never have to fire anyone.

1:32.3

It just means that they won't be surprised when you fire them.

1:37.1

That's coming up on any ads on this podcast.

1:54.4

This allows us to present all of our episodes raw and unfiltered.

1:57.7

I'm not going to push any made-to-order meal services on you or try to save you

2:01.1

any money on your car insurance. That being said, I have one small request. If you receive any

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