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Radical Candor: Communication at Work

The #1 Skill Leaders Need to Succeed — Radically Candid Conversations with Muriel Wilkins 5 | 12

Radical Candor: Communication at Work

Radical Candor

Careers, Relationships, Society & Culture, Business

4.7740 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What's the most important leadership skill? Kim and Amy welcome C-suite advisor and executive coach Muriel Wilkins to the first Radically Candid Conversation episode of 2023. Kim and Muriel discuss how keeping it real at work can go wrong, what employees want from their leaders today, and the difference between performance and behavior.Muriel Wilkins is a C-suite advisor and executive coach with a nearly 20-year track record of helping senior leaders and teams take their effectiveness to the next level. She is the host of the Harvard Business Review podcast, Coaching Real Leaders and the co-author of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence.Fun fact — Kim, Amy and Muriel all attended Harvard Business School at the same time but did not know each other. Read the show notes >> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Radical Canter Podcast. I'm Kim Scott, co-founder of Radical Cander,

0:09.5

an author of Radical Cander and Just Work. Thank justice not working all the time.

0:15.6

Good clarification. I am Amy Sandler, your host for the Radical Candor podcast.

0:22.5

And today we're really excited.

0:29.1

We are welcoming Muriel Wilkins to our first radically candid conversation of 2023.

0:30.2

So welcome Muriel.

0:31.4

We are so excited to welcome you and have you bring your voice into our podcast.

0:36.5

For those of you who don't know, Muriel Wilkins,

0:39.1

you are a C-suite advisor and executive coach with a nearly 20-year track record of helping

0:45.2

senior leaders and teams take their effectiveness to the next level. She's the host of

0:51.3

the Harvard Business Review podcast, Coaching Real Leaders, and the co-author of Own the Room,

0:58.0

Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence.

1:02.9

Muriel, when did that book Own the Room come out?

1:05.5

Ten years ago, which is hard to believe.

1:08.8

That is amazing.

1:10.7

Well, I'm excited to check that out.

1:12.9

I think that's more important than ever.

1:15.9

As we get started, there are a couple of areas of commonality between us.

1:21.0

First of all, I will say, and Jason Rosef is not on our podcast.

1:24.9

So just to make it clear that being on this podcast,

1:29.3

attendance at Harvard Business School is not a requirement. But it turns out that we were all

1:36.0

at Harvard Business School at the same time in the mid-90s. Kim and I did not know each other.

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