Radical Candor
2019 • 269 pages
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Featuring a new preface, afterword and Radically Candid Performance Review Bonus Chapter, the fully revised & updated edition of Radical Candor is packed with even more guidance to help you improve your relationships at work. 'Reading Radical Candor will help you build, lead, and inspire teams to do the best work of their lives.' – Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In. If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all . . . right? While this advice may work for home life, as Kim Scott has seen first hand, it is a disaster when adopted by managers in the work place. Scott earned her stripes as a highly successful manager at Google before moving to Apple where she developed a class on optimal management. Radical Candor draws directly on her experiences at these cutting edge companies to reveal a new approach to effective management that delivers huge success by inspiring teams to work better together by embracing fierce conversations. Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a mix of praise as well as criticism – delivered to produce better results and help your employees develop their skills and increase success. Great bosses have a strong relationship with their employees, and Scott has identified three simple principles for building better relationships with your employees: make it personal, get stuff done, and understand why it matters. Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Drawing on years of first-hand experience, and distilled clearly to give practical advice to the reader, Radical Candor shows you how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity. Radical Candor is the perfect handbook for those who are looking to find meaning in their job and create an environment where people love both their work and their colleagues, and are motivated to strive to ever greater success.
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This is a useful read if you want to learn to better communicate within a company or startup. Or with people in general I guess. I liked the practical examples from Kim Scott's career.
Startup culture tends to encourage a sugar-coated form of communication. In many cases that doesn't tend to be very useful. In some it can even be frustrating. I can tell from experience.
This book shows another approach that gets the message across, while being fair and not hurting other people's feelings. If you're running a startup, you should definitely read it. Much of it shows examples from well-established companies but everything applies.
What I felt was in some cases was that some pieces of advice were a bit evident to me. Instead of pages and pages of method, it could have been a paragraph describing what's wrong. Could be useful to others, though.