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Radical Candor: Communication at Work

Radical Candor

Careers, Relationships, Society & Culture, Business

4.7 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Amy and Jason discuss managers who have low, almost non-existent involvement in their team’s work, aka absentee managers; those with extremely (maybe excruciatingly) close involvement, aka micromanagers; and thought partners — the ones who empower, enable and encourage their teams to do the best work of their lives. While a lot of us have tendencies to act in absentee or micromanager mode, it’s hard for us to want to look at ourselves that way. Listen to this episode if you want to understand how to be a true thought partner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody.
0:06.5	Welcome to the Radical Cander podcast.
0:08.6	I'm Jason Rozov, CEO and co-founder of Radical Cander.
0:12.8	Hello, everybody.
0:15.0	I'm Amy Sandler, your host for the Radical Cander podcast.
0:18.6	As you can tell, Kim is not in our current everybody group of this
0:24.5	recording. We're taking a little break from the get shit done wheel that we've been talking about
0:29.7	with Kim while she is out on vacation. If you are a frequent listener, you'll know that Kim
0:35.7	likes to call her vacation time an opportunity to
0:38.9	clear the croft. So hopefully she's out there clearing the croft. And we'll get back to our next
0:45.0	episode talking about step four in the GSD wheel, which is decide. But in the meantime,
0:51.2	you've got Jason and I today talking about how to be a thought partner.
0:56.9	I'm excited about this, Jason.
0:58.5	How about you?
0:59.4	Me too.
1:00.1	Yeah.
1:00.8	Cool.
1:01.2	So we call managers who have low, let's say almost non-existent involvement in their
1:07.7	team's work.
1:09.2	They're in absentee manager mode. They're practicing absentee
1:13.3	management. On the other hand, there are folks who have extremely, perhaps excruciatingly close
1:20.2	involvement, and those folks are micromanaging. In between those two ends of the spectrum are
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