How to lead with radical candor | Kim Scott
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🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
"How can you say what you mean without being mean?" asks CEO coach and author Kim Scott. Delving into the delicate balance between caring and challenging when leading in the workplace, she introduces "radical candor" as the way to give constructive criticism, compassionately.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | You're listening to Ted Talks Daily. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host, Elise Hugh. |
| 0:13.2 | Today's talk really hits on a relatable problem at the workplace |
| 0:16.2 | or in any community that I immediately recognized. |
| 0:19.9 | Consultant and author Kim Scott describes it as ruinous empathy. |
| 0:25.0 | When you don't want to hurt someone's feelings at work and as a result, |
| 0:29.0 | hold back important news or truths that the listener really needs to hear. |
| 0:34.6 | This is unfair to the colleague and everyone else around them. |
| 0:38.5 | In her 2023 talk from TEDX Portland, Scott offers the solution to this problem. A better approach called |
| 0:46.0 | radical candor and she lays out how to do it. |
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| 1:19.8 | How can you all say what you mean without being mean? |
| 1:26.6 | I started thinking about this back in 1999. |
| 1:29.7 | I had started a software company |
| 1:32.0 | and I came into the office one day and about half the people |
| 1:38.2 | in the company had sent me the same article about how everyone would rather have a boss who is really mean but |
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