RADICAL CANDOR: Become a Kick-Ass Boss (Without Being a Jerk)

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🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Honesty may be the best policy, but that doesn’t make giving honest feedback any easier. That’s why Kim Scott, a veteran of Google and Apple, wrote “Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.” It’s a life-saving guide for anyone who’s ever had to dole out difficult but important feedback. Which means all of us.

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:05.0	I'm Rufus Griskam, and this is Next Big Idea,
0:08.0	and this is Next Big Idea Classics.
0:11.0	Today, Radical Candor with Kim Scott. So, Back in April 2018, Kim Scott, the Google and Apple exec turned management guru had just landed after a long international flight.
0:44.0	And turned my phone on and it was blowing up with messages.
0:49.0	They all said the same thing. Had she seen it?
0:52.0	Was she upset? What was she going to do?
0:55.0	And I couldn't even figure out how to watch it at first.
0:58.0	Somebody had to actually tape it on their phone and send it to me.
1:03.0	What she saw left her feeling horrified and humiliated.
1:07.0	Her book, Radical Candor, a guide to being honest and direct at work without being a jerk had appeared on
1:13.9	HBO's hit show Silicon Valley as a punchline. I practice something called
1:20.0	radical candor, just no matter how uncomfortable the truth is, I'm going to tell it to you.
1:25.6	The first tentative Radcan Richard is to just say what you think.
1:30.4	And what this character thinks is that the show's hero, Richard, should give him a job.
1:35.0	Like I could be your C.O.
1:37.0	Even though he already has one, a minor detail that becomes majorly awkward when his ball shows up unexpectedly.
1:44.0	Oh shit.
1:46.0	I looked at his calendar and it said he had a meeting.
1:48.0	Okay, Richard, I'm going to continue being honest with you and tell you that I have to leave now
1:51.0	through the kitchen.
1:52.0	Okay, please don't tell anyone
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