Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

* 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.

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336 pages

Average rating: 7.7

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Anonymous
Mar 13, 2024
8/10 stars
An interesting read, some valuable information on the importance of feedback at work. I thought the examples and reasoning behind radical candor were sound. The book made me think about what bringing your whole self to work really means, and how important connection is. It would have benefited from having a professional narrator as I did feel like the author was yelling at me the whole time. I did enjoy it and I would recommend it to someone in leadership.
Daniel Slowacek
Mar 02, 2023
8/10 stars
Great read for managers. Some of the parts were a bit too "preachy" imo and I wouldn't say that all guidance can be applied by any manager. Obviously skip level meetings are not an option if you don't have skips.

I also believe the book could have been a little more actionable. Still well worth the read.

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