Hello, everybody and welcome to the Radical Canter Podcast.

I'm Kim Scott, author of a Radical Cander and co-founder of a Radical Cander the company.

And I'm Jason Rosoff, CEO and co-founder of Radical Cander.

And I'm Amy Sandler, Radical Cander's chief marketing officer and your host for the podcast,

Radical Cander, How to Kick Ass at Work Without Losing Your Humanity.

So we thought it would be helpful to answer that age-old question, what exactly do bosses do?

Kim, you're a boss, so tell us.

I'm not the boss. Jason is the boss, for which I'm grateful, because it allows me to be what I've always wanted to be, the writer. But I will answer your

question. Bosses do not sit around answering emails and creating meetings, although a lot of people

think that's what they do.

Bosses do three things, three crucial things. They create a culture of feedback, number one.

Number two, they build a cohesive team so that together the team can three achieve results.

In other words, bosses get, give, and encourage feedback between

team members to get shit done. That feels true. I think when I'm at my best, I'm doing those three things.

And when I'm not, I feel like I have you all to back me up. Jason, as you look at those three things

that Kim's talking about, culture of feedback, cohesive team, achieve results.

I'm almost imagining different levers.

And at some point, you might have to put more emphasis on one of those than others.

And I'm just wondering, especially in the past few months as we've been navigating the pandemic, like how do you sort of weight those three pieces?

I look at them as sort of a virtuous loop as opposed to things that can be, can be weighted

separately. It's not, they're not serial, even though we listed them one, two, and three.

From my perspective, getting things done in this moment is something that

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