Hi, I'm Amy Sandler, host of the Radical Cander Podcast.

We're thrilled to introduce you to our new radically candid mini episodes.

These bite-sized shows feature Kim giving radical candor tips.

They're between five to ten minutes long and will be released in between regular episodes.

Enjoy it with a snack.

Hi, I'm Kim Scott, and I want to talk to you today about a very simple idea, radical candor.

If you can put this idea into practice, it will help you build teams on which everyone can do the best work of their lives and even more importantly,

build the best relationships of their career. In order to explain to you what I mean by

radical candor, I want to start by telling you a simple story about a time when my boss criticized me.

I had just started working at Google,

and I had to give a presentation to the founders and the CEO about how the AdSense business was doing. I walked into the room, and there was Sergei Bryn, one of the founders, on an elliptical

trainer peddling away in toes shoes

wearing a bright blue spandex unitarred.

In the other corner of the room was Eric Schmidt, who was the CEO of the company, and

he was so deep in his email, it was like his brain had been plugged into the machine.

And like any normal person in such a

situation, I felt a little bit nervous. How in the world was I supposed to get these people's

attention? Luckily for me, the AdSense business was on fire, and when I said how many new customers

we had added over the last two months, Eric, the CEO, almost fell off his chair.

And he said to me, that's incredible. What do you need? Do you need more marketing dollars?

Do you need more engineering resources? So I'm thinking like the meeting's going okay.

In fact, I now believe that I am a genius. And I walked out of the room right past my boss, who was Cheryl

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