What's up, everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

Welcome back to Founder's Journal, my personal audio diary, where I give you the business builder,

the tools you need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building a business,

a team, or a new product. Today, I am talking about radical candor. Let's hop into it.

So, just imagine how good you would feel if you spoke with complete and utter honesty at work,

and you never held back because you were afraid of how someone would react.

And imagine how well companies would be run if everyone understood what people thought of them,

and how they could be doing their job better to help the business grow.

It sounds so obvious when I say it, but it is so incredibly rare to find people and companies

that operate in this manner. For the largest part of my time as a manager at Morning Brew,

I absolutely messed this exact concept up. But today, that changes.

Thanks to Kim Scott, who is the author of Radical Candor, you are going to leave

with a framework and tools that will empower you to operate bullshit free and for your business

to operate bullshit free. Let me start by sharing a story of what radical candor looks like in practice.

It's a story of Kim Scott, who I just mentioned. Kim had just joined Google this was a while ago,

and she was one of the people who was responsible for the company's massive ad sense business.

Google is an advertising behemoth. And for context, that business, the ad sense business,

did $147 billion in 2020. So it's obviously huge. Kim was one of the leaders of this business,

and she was tasked with giving a presentation to Larry and Sergei, who are Google's founders,

and Eric Schmidt, who was the CEO of Google at the time. And basically, she had to present to them

how ad sense was doing as a business. As Kim describes it, the business was crushing it,

so presenting was easier. She said, Eric basically fell out of his chair when she shared

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