1: This week, we’ve been exploring author Kim Scott‘s ideas around what she calls “Radical Candor.”

Which is also the title of her book: Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.

Radical candor involves two critical elements, Kim explains: Care personally and Challenge directly.

That’s what radical candor is. 

2: What about what it is not? 

“Radical Candor is not a license to be … continue reading

1: “Very few people start out their careers thinking, I don’t give a damn about people, so I think I’ll be a great boss,” Kim Scott writes in Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.

To create a radically candid environment, Kim believes we must do two things: Care personally and challenge directly.

And yet, many bosses fall short in caring personally for the people on … continue reading

1: “I usually felt a little surge of pleasure,” Kim Scott writes in her book Radical Candor, “as I stepped off the elevator into the cavernous former warehouse in the East Village we’d rented as the office of Juice Software, the start-up I’d cofounded in 2000.”

But not this particular day. Instead, all she felt was stressed. 

“The engineers had worked nights and weekends on an early ‘beta’ version … continue reading

1: As leaders, we must build strong relationships with the people who work for us.

Yet, “like all human bonds, the connections between bosses and the people who report to them are unpredictable and not subject to absolute rules,” Kim Scott writes in her book Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.

There is, however, a framework we can use to create great relationships. 

The secret? … continue reading