1: “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off,” former Secretary of State Colin Powell once said. 

That’s because to be an effective leader, we must be willing to “challenge directly” the people on our teams. 

In her book Radical Candor, author Kim Scott tells us we must both care personally and challenge directly.

Challenging people directly “can be particularly difficult, especially at the outset,” Kim notes. We “may have … continue reading