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Radical Candor: Communication at Work

Radical Candor

Careers, Relationships, Society & Culture, Business

4.7 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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What do bosses do anyways? On this episode of the Radical Candor podcast, we're starting a new series to answer that question! Is it a manager’s job to go to meetings? Send emails? Tell people what to do? Are they supposed to work alongside their teams and carry part of the workload, or dream up strategies and expect other people to implement them? At the end of the day, a boss’s job is to guide a team to achieve results. However, depending on the size of your team, that process could look very different. Today we’re going to talk about managers of small teams and we’re going to define “small” as a team of 10 people or less. Listen to learn three key things every manager of small teams needs to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Radical Cander podcast.
0:09.4	I'm Kim Scott, co-founder of Radical Cander, an author of Radical Cander and Just Work.
0:16.4	Thank justice, not working all the time.
0:21.2	And we're already off script.
0:23.3	Jason, who are you?
0:24.8	I'm Jason Roseoff, CEO and co-founder of Radical Cander.
0:29.1	And I'm Amy Sandler, your host for the Radical Cander podcast.
0:33.2	Today we're starting a new series of episodes seeking to answer the perennial question,
0:39.8	what do bosses and managers do anyway?
0:44.4	And Kim, before we even get started, is it anyway, anyways, anyhow?
0:49.8	Anyway is what I say, but there's no absolute right answer to that question.
0:57.0	All right.
0:58.2	Well, with that as a framing, some of the questions that we have are, is it a manager's job
1:03.1	to just go to meetings, to send emails, to tell people what to do?
1:08.4	No, I'm still reading.
1:15.1	Keep going. But there are absolute answers to that question.
1:28.5	Okay, good. Are they supposed to work alongside their teams and carry part of the workload or dream-ups or dream-up strategies and expect other people to implement them. No.
1:29.2	Okay.
1:30.1	Maybe we should just do like a game show where we have Kim Scott just saying yes and no.
1:35.4	I love this.
1:35.9	I'm sure to get a lot of fans.
1:37.9	Kim, just a cut to the chase, you wrote a book.
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