Radical candor vs. Kind Candor
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
As many of you may know, candor was my kryptonite and the "half ingredient" of the traits from my last book Twelve and a Half. I'm still a 4 out of 10 on candor but working on it every day. But candor can also be weaponized by some leaders so I needed to rebrand it as "Kind Candor". On today's episode, I'm joined by CEO of Carta, Henry Ward, where we discuss leadership, the struggles of middle management, and how to be more efficient with your time in the workplace. Leaders and especially those in middle management will get value out of this listen. Tweet/X at me on Twitter (@garyvee) with your thoughts from this episode!
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| 0:00.0 | I used to struggle with the living bad news because I have a disease. It's called I love my |
| 0:04.4 | clothes and I mean it. I love people. You're getting to know me a little bit here. Like I'm just |
| 0:08.1 | them who I am. Like I really like people and I screw up and I've gotten way better. And especially |
| 0:13.4 | last three years, I go to book that touched on it aggressively. I talk about it. My content more |
| 0:18.2 | candor was my kryptonite. I call it kind candor at VaynerMedia because I think radical people |
| 0:24.0 | feel like, oh, let me give you the purest form of it, which I actually think seeps into people's |
| 0:30.2 | real struggle with candor, which is they don't do it. They don't deliver it with enough empathy |
| 0:34.3 | compassion, sympathy and context. Attention is the number one asset. VaynerNation, how are you? |
| 0:42.3 | Another exciting episode of the GaryVee audio experience. Decided that we've done a lot of |
| 0:49.3 | motivation. We're doing a lot of innovation, but I want to get into operation. I want to get into |
| 0:55.2 | the depths. I was really excited with the opportunity came to have this guest on the show because I think |
| 1:00.9 | bringing leaders who actually did it or actually doing it are building, you know, for me, |
| 1:07.9 | building a business that from afar, I admire in its longevity. It's not a fly by night. It's |
| 1:14.3 | not a unicorn. Unicorn, even though this is probably a unicorn in the way it's defied, but like, |
| 1:18.8 | you know, it's a unicorn aka startup that's a big company, not a rhinoceros with painting |
| 1:27.4 | its horn and making pretend it's a unicorn aka a lot of the startups that are grossly overvalued |
| 1:32.8 | and then disappear off the face of the earth because they were over leveraged and weren't actually |
| 1:36.7 | building an actual business. And I want to tap into some of the minds of the people that are |
| 1:41.0 | doing it because so many of you are on your journey of doing it. And so that's why I asked Henry |
| 1:46.2 | to be on the show. Henry, welcome. Please tell everybody your full name, what you do, what the |
| 1:52.0 | company is and a little bit about the company. And I think we should get into a meat and potatoes |
| 1:56.3 | episode here of the audio experience. Thank you for being on, brother. Yeah, thanks Gary. Thanks |
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