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I'm Matt Abrahams.

I teach strategic communication at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

And welcome to Think Fast, Talk Smart, the podcast. Today I'm really excited to speak with Kim Scott. Kim is an executive, an author,

and a speaker. She wrote the New York Times bestseller, Radical Cander, Be a kick-ass boss

without losing your humanity, and just work, how to root out bias, prejudice,

and bullying to create a kick-ass culture of inclusivity. Kim also held important senior leadership

and development roles at Google and Apple, and she's also an executive coach. Welcome, Kim. I'm super excited to talk to you, and our

former guest and friend Bob Sutton speaks super highly of your work. Shall we jump in? Let's do it.

Thanks so much for having me. Awesome. To begin, can you share your definition of radical candor?

Sure. Radical candor is just caring personally and challenging directly at the same time.

And that caring and challenging don't sound so radical.

So why do I call them radical?

They're radical because they're rare.

And as an explanation of why they're rare,

I want to explain what happens when we fail on one dimension or another.

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