Debate (Don't Squish) Ideas—Get Shit Done Step 3 ~ 4 | 8
Radical Candor: Communication at Work
Radical Candor
4.7 • 740 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Radical Cander Podcast. I'm Kim Scott, co-founder of Radical Cander, and also Just Work. |
| 0:14.1 | And I'm Jason Roseoff, CEO and co-founder of Radical Cander. And I'm Amy Sandler, your host for the Radical Cander podcast. On our last two episodes, |
| 0:22.8 | we talked about step two in the get shit done wheel, which is how to clarify an idea. First, |
| 0:29.5 | getting it really clear in your own mind and then making it easy for others to understand as well. |
| 0:35.3 | So now that you've got that down, it is tempting to feel like you're done. |
| 0:40.9 | Not so fast. |
| 0:41.9 | Kim, |
| 0:42.1 | do you think it's tempting for people to feel like |
| 0:43.8 | they want to get it done? |
| 0:44.9 | They're done at the clarified state. |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah, once you've decided, do it. |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.6 | And decide is that we haven't even gotten to decide. |
| 0:51.5 | We haven't even gotten to decide. |
| 0:53.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.2 | Right. When you're clarified, once you're clear in your mind, just start doing stuff. |
| 0:58.3 | The whole point of spending all that time in clarification mode is just to get your idea ready |
| 1:04.3 | for a debate, which is step three of the get shit done wheel. If you skip the debate phase, you're going to make worse decisions, |
| 1:12.8 | you'll be unable to persuade everyone that needs to implement, and you'll ultimately slow down |
| 1:18.1 | or grind to a halt the process. So on this episode, we're going to talk about the steps to |
| 1:23.3 | follow for a successful debating process. And Kim, in Radical Candor, you write that debates should |
| 1:29.9 | take place in big debate meetings. In fact, those were each all capitalized. So please do. Tell us |
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