Kim Scott on Radical Respect

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

What makes a good leader? Having coached CEOs at various tech companies including Dropbox and Twitter, Kim Scott thought she had a foolproof strategy. It’s one she outlined in her 2017 book, “Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.” As the title suggests, honesty lies at the heart of Kim’s approach. But what happens when bias and prejudice don’t allow you to be direct? This is a question that followed Kim for years after the publication of her first book, leading her to write another, called “Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better.” Kim sits down with Jessi to discuss how we can build better relationships and stand up when we see injustice in the workplace. Follow Kim Scott on LinkedIn and check out her books here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir, now in paperback. To listen to the conversation about Danya Ruttenberg's “On Repentance and Repair” that Kim and Jessi mention, click here. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us this week on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. To continue the conversation this week and every week, join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News.
0:02.0	From the news
0:08.0	from the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemple and this is Hello Monday.
0:12.0	It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.
0:19.0	If you've worked in tech for a while, you probably have heard of Kim Scott. Kim coached
0:25.0	CEOs at a lot of the companies that I wrote about. Companies like Dropbox and
0:29.2	Twitter, back when it was called Twitter. Kim was on the faculty at something called Apple University.
0:36.0	It's this program that Steve Jobs started to teach people at Apple
0:40.0	what makes Apple Apple.
0:42.0	Even before that, Kim led an important team at Google in the early years.
0:47.0	Kim has built this reputation for being the kind of manager you really want to work for.
0:52.0	You know, someone who can uplift everyone around her. being the kind of manager you really want to work for.
0:52.5	You know, someone who can uplift everyone around her,
0:55.8	but also be really direct.
0:58.3	Seven years ago, Kim put it all together in a book.
1:01.4	A how-to manual. She called it radical candor, be a kick-ass boss without losing
1:06.7	your humanity. Now the book became a bestseller, pretty much immediately and more important
1:11.6	to Kim companies began to adopt its principles.
1:15.7	But the more and more Kim visited leaders to talk about the book, the more she ran into this
1:20.8	shortcoming that the book had, not everyone feels that they have
1:24.9	permission to be direct. Not everyone can embrace radical candor equally.
1:30.1	That's what we're going to get into today.
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