About Radical Candor [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2018] KIM SCOTT
* New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller multiple years running
* Translated into 20 languages, with more than half a million copies sold worldwide
* A Hudson and Indigo Best Book of the Year
* Recommended by Shona Brown, Rachel Hollis, Jeff Kinney, Daniel Pink, Sheryl Sandberg, and Gretchen Rubin
Radical Candor has been embraced around the world by leaders of every stripe at companies of all sizes. Now a cultural touchstone, the concept has come to be applied to a wide range of human relationships.
The idea is simple: You don’t have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candor—avoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathy—you can be kind and clear at the same time.
Kim Scott was a highly successful leader at Google before decamping to Apple, where she developed and taught a management class. Since the original publication of Radical Candor in 2017, Scott has earned international fame with her vital approach to effective leadership and co-founded the Radical Candor executive education company, which helps companies put the book’s philosophy into practice.
Radical Candor is about caring personally and challenging directly, about soliciting criticism to improve your leadership and also providing guidance that helps others grow. It focuses on praise but doesn’t shy away from criticism—to help you love your work and the people you work with.
Radically Candid relationships with team members enable bosses to fulfill their three core responsibilities:
1. Create a culture of Compassionate Candor
2. Build a cohesive team
3. Achieve results collaboratively
Required reading for the most successful organizations, Radical Candor has raised the bar for management practices worldwide.
- Complete Title: Radical Candor [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2018] KIM SCOTT
- Format: Paperback
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 272
- Publication Time: January 1, 2018
- Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN U.K
- ISBN: 1509845380
- ISBN13: 9781509845385
About Kim Malone Scott
Kim Malone Scott
Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. Kim is also the co-founder and CEO of Candor, Inc., which builds tools to make it easier to follow the advice she offers in the book. She is also the author of three novels.
Prior to founding Candor, Inc., Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and several other Silicon Valley companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University, developing the course “Managing at Apple,” and before that led AdSense, YouTube, and Doubleclick Online Sales and Operations at Google. Previously, Kim was the co-founder and CEO of Juice Software, a collaboration start-up, and led business development at two other start-ups, Delta Three and Capital Thinking. Earlier in her career, she worked as a senior policy advisor at the FCC, managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo, started a diamond cutting factory in Moscow, and was an analyst on the Soviet Companies Fund. Kim received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BA from Princeton University. Kim and her husband Andy Scott are parents of twins and live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Reviews Radical Candor [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2018] KIM SCOTT
As I worked my way through this book I wanted to hate it. It had enough of the grating Silicon Valley meets Ted talk tropes to assume it lacked substance. Name dropping of personal relationships with…
Luke Duncan
Great book, minus one star for all the name dropping.Takeaways:1. Radical candor = Care personally + challenge directly2. Care personally starts with career discussions and good 1:1s3. Challenge direc…
Peter Yang
Overly-repetitive business books are the hill I’m dying on now, I guess. Per most books in the genre, the best is always saved for last. In this case, the final three chapters are the most valuable an…
Jaclyn Day
Radical Candor is written for managers/bosses, but I’d recommend it for anyone in the workplace. Kim Scott’s observations have wide application, and do a great job of prioritizing the need to treat ev…
Ross Blocher
There’s a lot of good content here. But the author’s advice isn’t always consistent with the stated ideals. For example, there are many suggestions that sound like servant leadership, and many of thes…
Vlad
“Here’s what Google and Apple do. Also Twitter. I don’t know anybody at Facebook”…
Michael McCain
This book was a drag. A few observations:- It’s basically a collection of stories glorifying some big Silicon Valley names. My impression was she lifted up all those she’s coached or those who’ve been…
Gitanjali
This is a business book that actually offers a significant amount of practical advice to managers, starting from the basic “how to have a 1-1” to “how to implement the right performance review process…
Emily
I wish I had a time machine to send this book with a heartfelt “please read” note back in time to myself and to leaders, colleagues, and teams I worked with over the years. Kim’s book offers an…